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Heath's expedition team speculated the "strange light" from the crystals is the "guardian" of the treasures, deep in the crater. Reading other parts of the Scarlet/Violet Book indicate that Paradox Pokemon get more common the deeper one goes.
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Terastallizing is energy crystallization is linked to a "being" with shells comprised of interlocking hexagonal plates.
Admittedly, the time machine's glowy crystal walls are not hexagonal, they're made of triangles, but the floor pillars it rises up & puts the professor on (& I think also the rings?) are. & some of the lab walls seem hexagonal, or feature hexagon patterns....
Crystals have tremendous power & make the experiments more unstable.
Add on how obsessed the professor was with creating a "paradox" they indicate would be filled with Pokemon from the future/past, despite that the majority of them are aggressive & dangerous, & how at least other characters realize this would be an environmental disaster for Paldea....
All the while, their research.... They move their lab to Area Zero, their team is reduced in size, they worry their investors, their significant other walks out with their child, they become paranoid about who to trust, & build an AI clone of themselves, powered by & made of those crystals.
They then sacrifice themselves to protect the kinder Paradox Pokemon (Koraidon/Miraidon), costing them their lives.
They also set up the time machine's Paradise Protection Protocols, supposedly. Meaning all those failsafes. Like making it able to reinitialize as long as the AI Professor (Who can't leave.) is present, the Poke Ball lock system....
But, tellingly, when the machine is made to shut down, using their specific copy of the book, Access is granted.... Then it says to wait for the emergency shut down... then Access Denied.
Even when all of its failsafes the professor supposedly programmed in are adhered to, the "Time Machine" will not shut down. I'd liken it to a life form that wants to stay alive.
After all, why else would it reject the satisfied conditions of its own "emergency shutdown"?
There's also the behaviour. When the system takes over the AI Professor, their dialogue is unfamiliar:
They say "my dream", but before, they very often talked about the professor in 3rd person.
They call the player "child", not by their name like usual.
Before the battle, the professor says they believe in the player's bonds with their Pokemon to win. But when they send out their last Paradox Pokemon, they claim your chances of winning are zero.
They're also surprised when the player gets a super-effective hit on 1 of their Paradox Pokemon, wondering if the player character knows ancient/future Pokemons' weaknesses.
When the system is in control of the AI Professor, it doesn't act like an unwilling opponent, it acts like it's someone else. Someone who doesn't know protagonist at all, has no confidence in the player & every confidence in themself, & someone who claims the professor's dream as their own.
The fact that it claims the professor's dream as their own, means:
A. The system-controlled AI genuinely believes it IS the professor, unlike the uncontrolled AI professor, who considers itself & the professor separate.
B. The system-controlled AI professor is someone or something else, but what was the professor's dream is its own dream, too.
I think Option B B. makes sense; The stray expeditioner from "A Phantom Memory" entered a dreamlike place, spoke with someone, & seemingly wrote a page they had no memory of writing, & the professor & the system seemed obsessive in making sure the PPP stays active, even beyond rationality (It would've been dangerous & cause ecological chaos, & research into Area Zero drove the professor apart from their family.) to the point that the PPP rejects a condition-satisfied emergency shut down with the professor's ID.
Going their journal, they were unfettered when their team was reduced in size, when the crystals proved unstable, when their investors fretted, & their concern when their significant other left wasn't their family break-up, but that they needed another pair of hands.
The professor's backstory indicates they could get obsessive....
But I don't think this was natural obsession.
I think a Pokemon compelled the stray expeditioner to see those dreams, likely also write about that Disk Pokemon... & likely the same Pokemon, the guardian that is the "strange light" from the Terastallization crystals was what influenced the professor.
Tellingly, the AI Professor is made from Crystal, like the triangles on the walls, & Terastallization; If the Light of Terastallization Crystals is the "Guardian", then what is someone made from those crystals?
I think that, for some reason, it put at least 1 idea into the professor's head, making them think of the idea as if it were their own, & that idea involved filling the present with Past/Future Pokemon.
Why it wanted them to build this tech or amass Paradox Pokemon, though, I don't know.
