Cooper's Sacrifice

To save Brand and the mission, Cooper had to detach.

Into the Dark

Falling into a black hole was a suicide mission, or so he thought.

The Data

He gathered the quantum data needed to solve the gravity equation, proving that his detachment was the only way to save Earth.

Mission Strategy Flowchart

flowchart TD
    Start([Earth is Dying]) --> Search{Find New Home?}
    Search --> Miller[Miller's Planet: Water/Tides]
    Search --> Mann[Mann's Planet: Ice/Betrayal]
    Search --> Edmunds[Edmunds' Planet: Habitable]

    subgraph Strategies
        PlanA[Plan A: Move everyone on Earth using Gravity]
        PlanB[Plan B: Repopulate with frozen embryos]
    end

    Miller --> Fail1[Wasted 23 years]
    Mann --> Fail2[Data was faked]
    
    Fail2 --> Sacrifice[Cooper enters Black Hole]
    Sacrifice --> QuantumData[Quantum Data sent via Tesseract]
    
    QuantumData --> SolveA[Murph solves Gravity]
    SolveA --> PlanASuccess[[Plan A Successful: Humanity Saved]]
    
    Edmunds --> PlanBSuccess[[Plan B: Amelia starts Colony]]

Cooper's Sacrifice

Into the Dark

The Data

Mission Strategy Flowchart

Further Reading

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