The Witness has mastered chaos theory.

If the deterministic flow in highly complex, or random systems are witnessed. No wonder every species touched by the Light is cut down. Once their “sophisticated” chord is discerned. They are silenced. We need a component with sheer unpredictability. Like “self-organized criticality” in physics. Instead of complexity being driven with a starting point, than sprawled. It is reshaped/re-emerged on avalanches of criticality. A tipping point. Like a sand pile. Even phasing states of water. But not the initial condition. Which is a way to be tracked, or figured out.

Mara Sov: If your enemy knows how the bomb works, they can disarm it. I dreamt that the Sword that was Death and Rule sought out complexity and cut it to reveal the simplicity within.——Against it was the desire to become a shape so complex, that it could within itself play other games. By the bomb, I mean that way of being that is complex and schematic and that must attain a criticality to attack.

Ikora: I believe Mara has begun to consider that she may not be the prime executor of her own endgame. She may be just one component of the bomb—a payload or a timing device. At the end of her own journey, she is necessary but not sufficient.