u/Riley861

So I just finished the main moon word quest in 6.7, and after that final reveal, one big revelation came in my mind that not a lot of people are pointing out. The Heavenly Principles cannot possibly be the ship AI of the Traveler's spaceship.

To prove this, allow me to set up a timeline of events, all of this is confirmed based on information found in the world quest.

First, Nibelung leaves Teyvat after creating the 3 moons.

Dragon pioneers begin to explore the Frost Moon, and eventually receive a signal from deep space, originally thought to be a message from Nibelung.

At some point later, Ungien recieves the signal again, and this time is able to locate its coordinates.

Ungien sets off in the Moongazer to try and find the signal source, not intending on returning.

The Moongazer returns, housing the fused Ungien with the Stellar Blackbody alien, which relays a warning about some darkness spreading across the cosmos (likely the Abyss).

Project Moongazer begins, led by Lusalim, who begins to research cloaking fields, so when they send a message out it doesn't expose them to whatever is out there.

Now, HP arrives, we know they arrived before Lusalim completed Project Moongazer, because he made a deal with them after their arrival to allow him to continue his project on the moon.

Nibelung returns and the War of Funerary Flame occurs, and during this Nibelung builds a massive weapon in the dark side of the Frost moon.

Since Lusalim's research base is located in said weapon, it's likely that the project was completed either during or after Nibelung's war.

Either way, the project is completed, and signals begin to get sent out at repeated intervals via the black Khuuhenki over and over again.

Finally, at some unknown time later, the Traveler recieves the message from Project Moongazer, with BOTH twins present at the time.

Ok, so now let me explain. The Traveler tells us that the Abyss Twin likely left the spaceship during their first, and only other, passby of Teyvat (thousands of years ago), meaning that after that, there would have only been 1 passenger on board the ship. When the Traveler recieves the Moongazer message, both twins are present to hear it, meaning this is BEFORE their first passby of Teyvat. In other words, the spaceship only made contact with Teyvat after the message was recieved, and thus after Project Moongazer's completion. From the timeline above, we know that the HP arrived before Project Moongazer was able to be fully complete, and thus the HP cannot have been the ship AI, as their ship would not have known about Teyvat's existence until after the project was completed.

The Heavenly Principles being an AI is still possible, of course, but they cannot logically be the ship AI of the Traveler's ship.