>>5232026>>5232032I'd like to think that there's room for us to interpret Void Dragon as not inherently evil.
Maybe such a thing as the C'tan, or this single C'tan, is more like "test" the Machine God creates. For the whole material universe was created by him, do we not see how orderly like gears and cogs the movement of planets are? For surely, if Mankind and the Emperor could tame even one, and produce the wonder of mars, there was the hand of the Machine God in that.
The Machine God lead the Emperor to tame the Void Dragon in the age of knights, and with his psychic power, transport his cage to mars where it slumbers and its dreams gave rise to Martial Colony and eventually the Mechanicum itself. Of course Talos wouldn't know (yet) that Big E put the Void Dragon, but maybe he would tell him. Or some other source would.
Maybe the Void Dragon is less of our Satan and more of our Islamic Jinn, "neither innately evil nor innately good,". A created entity of our god that has lost its way, mighty and powerful and beautiful and carries a fragment of his power to create and control machines, but wayward. Not to be destroyed, but to be managed and overcome by mankind. Just as our Father did.
Mostly because I also think we would just straight up lose against the Void Dragon and even if we didn't awakening or destroying it could unleash a devastating death throw of effects that could cause every last piece of Imperial Technology to fail or at least cripple Mars itself through loss of power. Perhaps the Void Dragon itself may be fueling vital systems that keep the rogue AIs and other experiments from destroying the whole planet. 