Westworld’s season 3 premiere seems to confirm the location of the Delos park

Westworld is again, and the season Three premiere introduced us our first glimpses of the large metropolis. However, sarcastically, the primary episode spent fully out of Delos parks could have truly given viewers extra info on the precise parks than ever earlier than. Close to the tip of the episode, it appears that evidently one character could have lastly revealed to us the place Delos’ island is definitely positioned.

[Ed. observe: this submit incorporates spoilers for Westworld season 3, episode 1]

Close to the tip of the episode, Bernard — who appears to be having a tough go of issues after leaving the park — talks a neighborhood boat proprietor into taking him again to Westworld. To indicate the good man precisely the place he must go, Bernard whips out a map and for a break up second we see the place he’s pointing to.

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The one factor that’s very clear on the map is that Bernard is pointing to someplace within the South China Sea. Extra particularly, it seems like he’s referencing an precise island chain within the area known as the Spratly Islands. These small distant islands are Chinese language managed territory, which might match with the knowledge we have already got concerning the park’s location.

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Final 12 months, we bought a number of distinguished pictures of safety forces talking Chinese language, and Karl Strand telling somebody to get these forces “off my fucking island.” That helps each the concept that the park is on an island, and that the island is managed by the Chinese language authorities.

Sadly, the picture of Bernard pointing to the map doesn’t fairly give us a transparent sufficient image to know precisely which island Delos park is perhaps on, however fortunately this isn’t the one time this specific areas has come up.

Within the Finnish model of the ultimate episode of season 2, subtitles give an oddly particular message: an exact set of coordinates. That is in reference to the situation of the park, but it surely was troublesome for followers to know if they need to actually belief the situation or not, in any case … it was a random spot within the South China Sea. Sound acquainted?

Now that we’ve seen Bernard level to roughly the identical location on his map, it’s price revisiting these coordinates to see if they offer us an actual match for areas, and because it seems they do: Mischief Reef.

In the actual world, Mischief Reef is definitely an atoll within the South China Sea. The reef is presently below the management of the Individuals’s Republic of China — although it’s been the topic of territory disputes between the Philippines and China during the last three many years. Somewhere around 2016, China started creating the island right into a navy base with synthetic land. To the most effective of our data, there at the moment are several anti-aircraft and missile-defense systems on Mischief Reef as well as a large runway and airfield.

All of this sophisticated historical past, and up to date navy curiosity, makes Mischief Reef a fairly affordable place to set the Delos parks within the Westworld universe. That together with the coordinates, and the truth that Bernard factors on to the Spratly Islands signifies that we are able to a minimum of be fairly assured in saying that Westworld’s Delos Parks are positioned on Mischief Reef.

In fact this nonetheless leaves fairly a number of questions for the present to reply. And with a lot of Westworld season Three happening in the actual world and out of doors the confines of the theme parks, possibly we’ll find out how precisely Delos managed to purchase a man-made militarized island from the Chinese language authorities.