Proposition: AJ just confirmed Lotor’s colony plan.



I present my defense below the cut.





The Altean at the end of Season 7 was described as the mech’s “power source.”

The pilot is the battery. The quintessence has to come from somewhere. For Voltron, it also comes from the pilots, unless there is an ample supply of it nearby, such as the rift.

So the premise of pilots’ Quintessence as fuel is established already.

Moreover, there’s a striking resemblance between Sincline and this Altean mech, further linking the colony, Lotor and this machine.

(The first image is from the battle in the rift with Sincline, the second from Voltron’s battle with the Altean mech. Voltron is blue in both cases.)

Lotor has been trying to find a way to protect his New Altea colony since before Voltron came back from being scattered across the universe.

Without the knowledge of Alchemy that Alfor possessed, he did the best he could.

“I have given everything that I have to plumb the depths of King Alfor’s knowledge - to unlock the mysteries of Oriande.” - Lotor, S6 E6

The second colony - the lunar outpost - was a military facility. The Alteans volunteered to train to fly and fight (which accounts for why Bandor was able to fly the pod, even when Romelle said no one knew how to operate it for generations - the Alteans on the main colony did not receive this training.)

However, not all Alteans were eligible. The machines required a Quintessence source, and Lotor has confirmed his knowledge that only some are alchemically inclined:

Eligible pilots were taken to the military facility on the moon and trained to pilot the machines. Soldiers. Martyrs. And, unfortunately, sacrifices.

Without Alfor’s knowledge, the machines were too much for the pilots, and drained them of too much Quintessence, forcing Lotor to put them in pods - infusing them with Quintessence in an effort to save them, giving them the gaunt, hallowed look that resembled Honerva when she was over-saturated from the rift.

Lotor didn’t drain them. The mechs - that the Alteans willingly, knowingly chose to fly - did, and he was trying to save them. The special shipment of Quintessence that The Blades intercepted that was tied back to Lotor was going to the colony, not from it.

Honerva has now improved on the design.

By adding a Komar, the pilot will be able to recharge the suit - and themselves - by utilizing the Quintessence of something else - Voltron, in this explicit case.

This pilot does not look drained, nor overexposed, and her brow twitches, so she’s not dead, either.

(As an aside - those marks look faintly reminiscent of the lines on the Alteans in the colony, as well as on Bandor.)

And there does exist precedence (albeit non-Altean) for an entity to infuse themselves with Quintessence in an effort to maintain health…

In short, AJ is correct. The Alteans are batteries, their Quintessence is being used to fly the machines to defend the last of their kind, and the Paladins just left Lotor in the Rift.

For a more detailed analysis on the colony, and what this could mean for Lotura as an endgame option, see

Leaking Hate’s Meta Here (Thank you @leakinghate for being my meta buddy!)

My Meta Here

And if you’re curious about my crack theory about how the Komar is Altean and Alfor invented it, you can find that here.





[This is what happens when you leave the Lotura Discord alone with our thoughts for too long.]