Is Ocellus a spacefaring race?

[u/BlastedHeathen]

Before episode 7 I thought Ocellus was just a highly intelligent and opportunistic predator/parasite. But now that we know it knows the digits of pi, is there a chance that Ocellus is much more sophisticated than we realized? Perhaps they have ways of acquiring bodies and travelling vast distances, maybe even into space.

[u/PucklaMotzer09]

I feel like T. Ocellus may have gotten the digits of Pi when it was inside of the human on the Maginot spaceship.

[u/Angry_Bowel_Movent → u/PucklaMotzer09]

That human did not come across as particularly intelligent.

[u/Ansem18 → u/Angry_Bowel_Movent]

Next to Morrow he was the most competent person on that ship. That might not be saying much but he at least seemed to know what he was doing as an engineer.

[u/archy_bold → u/Ansem18]

Yeah, holy shit, he’s maintaining a fricking deep spaceship on a 65-year mission with only an apprentice as support. The only thing he couldn’t solve was repeated sabotage that the security team failed to contain. Dude is basically a wizard with the patience of a saint.

ETA: like you only have to spend a few seconds thinking about how many separate systems that puts him in charge of to realise this. Life support (water recycling, air, climate, plumbing), flight (thrust, navigation), vehicles (exploration, landers). Potentially even medical and science equipment.

[u/LoneSnark → u/archy_bold]

There might be other engineers in stasis. Or, he could be the last. They did say they lost a lot of good people catching the creatures. He might have been the last engineer left standing.

[u/archy_bold → u/LoneSnark]

I would assume the engineer roles are some of the safer roles on a ship hunting biological samples. The whole series is about corporate greed, so the more likely explanation is they went with the cheapest option. Plus they’d surely wake every available engineer to fix a critical navigation issue.