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I just read #41 for the first time, and I had a thought...

General opinion is that The One was the being messing with Jake's head in the book. It manipulates the world Jake is in so that he is left with a choice between saving the world or saving one of the team, and altogether the book seems to symbolize the choices that Jake ends up making in the final books.

But, even if the choice he makes at the end of #41 is left to be ambiguous, it seems almost certain that the exercise shaped Jake's perspective during the final battle. If he hadn't made the choice to sacrifice Rachel, he may have come up with a different plan. The Blade ship may never have gotten away, so Ax would never have been chasing it, and then he never would have been captured by The One at all...and, in turn, the rest of the group never would have followed after him.

So is it possible that #41 was an exercise for The Borg One to put all of these events in motion, just for the sake of capturing humans for "further study"? Has anyone else thought this, or am I just desperately fanwanking for the sake of making the end of #54 seem more thought-out and meaningful?