If it was The Eye, then what's the current eye? Wouldn't a star create heat and energy, more than gravity? I think it's a black hole or a wormhole of some sort. According to most, if not all black hole theory, going backwards isn't possible, going forward could be but there are issues there too, but they're less insurmountable. I think it's been shown that they're not in our solar system. The star is different, more to the white side I think, the surrounding systems, stars, etc are totally different, not to mention the void they're in. I'm of the idea he was transported to a different universe via an accident or an unknown ability of The Mæron, as no one seems to know where it came from or who created it. For all Tyr knows it could be a weapon and possibly the reason they're in the void as it created it.
To clarify what I mean about it being the Eye. I think the Maeron was the Star that was where the Eye is. The condensing caused a blackhole and then that blackhole became the pulsar we know as the Eye (the Marrow route has Marrow mention it is a pulsar, which is a type of nebula, ie a baby star) (the Rhoun route has a dream where the Eye is alluded to be stitched together from pieces of its brethren)
And doesn't it create heat and energy? That's what is powering the Ikarod2. Marrow said they don't know if the gravity or the energy are the main purpose or side effect of the Maeron, but it does produce energy, gravity, and electromagnetic waves (Marrow said he can't approach it) like a star does. And the line between a condensed star (to fit on a ship) and a blackhole is very thin from my understanding of physics.
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It could be a different universe, but if enough time has passed the star map would change a lot too. Like when I said I think it's the future, I'm thinking tens of thousands of years in the future.
If it's not the future, I still think my Eye and Maeron being connected theory is sound.