"I can't tell if the image is frozen or not, but after watching her increasingly erratic behavior, I can't shake the feeling that she's looking at me."
ulysses uses "a faint, almost inaudible signal" to drive the people in ilium crazy and kill each other. there's no indication as to what that might have been, so i'm choosing to believe it was the whispers of yog-sothoth. odin made it out somehow and ran off to start up her own kingdom. and to build a train.
this leads to the logical conclusion ulysses is secretly odi--
If I had a nickel for every mechs character in a romantic and/or sexual relationship with some sort of space transportation I'd have three nickels. Which isn't a lot but it's weird that it happened thrice