Why did Tycho asked you to spare sleeping god?

[C03]

It doesn't make sense unless he started to go insane too.

[barthon]

The way I interpret this is that for most of the game the assumption is that it's the sleeping god who corrupted the world and destroying it (the god) is the only way to save it. Yet, with so much killing and destruction there isn't much world left to save while it surfaces that the god itself may be corrupted. Maybe by an external force we're not yet aware of or a higher power but leaving it alive may be the last option to save at least some of the world from the violence (corrupted or not).

Note, that at the beginning of the game the situation doesn't seem that bad yet, as at least one of the angels is still not corrupted. Either way, the role of the martyr is fulfilled and you are no longer necessary, game ends with your choice.

[C03]

Originally posted by barthon:

The way I interpret this is that for most of the game the assumption is that it's the sleeping god who corrupted the world and destroying it (the god) is the only way to save it. Yet, with so much killing and destruction there isn't much world left to save while it surfaces that the god itself may be corrupted. Maybe by an external force we're not yet aware of or a higher power but leaving it alive may be the last option to save at least some of the world from the violence (corrupted or not).

Note, that at the beginning of the game the situation doesn't seem that bad yet, as at least one of the angels is still not corrupted. Either way, the role of the martyr is fulfilled and you are no longer necessary, game ends with your choice.

Interesting analogy!
I suppose it really doesn't matter at this point, seems like there isn't much left anyway, whether sleeping god is alive or not. Just like Tycho said Sleeping god is not aware of anything so whether he wakes up in empty world he wouldn't know anything. At the end though I felt that I should nuke sleeping god, just so that Lysander's effort was not wasted.

[barthon]

Yes, there is also the lingering thought that you are the bad character actually. There is nothing to say (that I can tell) that you're actually the good character trying to save the world from a real threat and not just being a fanatic on a terrorist violence spree having been coerced into action by the actual "evil" actors. There is nothing that I can tell that clearly indicates what you're fighting is an evil force apart from what only two characters are saying. (unless I missed something, please correct me)

It's sort of similar to the feeling I had after the first Matrix (before the sequels came out), in that what's to say that Neo is actually fighting a good cause and not just fed drugs and brainwashed by a terrorist cult into violent acts against real-world authority?

[barthon]

One other fact I haven't thought of before is that the "world" we see in the game is "just" the interior of a massive, titular citadel where we go deeper with each level. We don't know how the citadel and its inhabitants fit into the larger planet/world setting or whether this is even a material word rather than, say a computer metaverse. The developer sometimes posts twitter gifs and screenshots on what seems to be his continuing work on Citadel 2, I hope they (he?) will elaborate more on the plot background.

[Boomy]

The world of the game doesn't rotate anymore. Because of this, humans are stuck living in the zone of dusk, where the conditions are too harsh for them to survive. To save themselves, they turned into cyborgs. The god was made to help save them because the original one has abandoned humanity. However, instead, it started to make all cyborgs go crazy. Tycho is incompatible with implants, making him immune to the madness. The heroine is instead an ancient human who was kept in cryo sleep, making them stronger than the current, devolved humans, and free of the god's influence.

Tycho doesn't see how humans can be saved anymore, having been destined to die for years now. As such, they suggests just letting the god be born, rather than having it die along with the humans, who will likely never be saved. Tycho themselves will also die in a few years, as they have no cyborg parts to keep them alive.

This stuff was revealed in interviews. I might be remembering a detail or two wrong. There was also a whole thing about demons guiding humans towards cybernetics while pretending to be angels themselves. It's wild stuff. I hope more of the lore gets put into the sequel, since this game mostly has you guessing.