Board Thread:Questions and Answers/@comment-30882723-20170104074912/@comment-6697950-20170104142843

Actually, I do believe that Cradle is here more to buy time for Kawahara to think of what to do next than anything. As far as I've heard from C9, Kawahara hasn't finished resolving the story of Cradle entirely, but is not going to continue it for a while.