wait actually she says this in her opening expository dialogue so fast you probably missed it. she is here for two reasons, to get a man, and also to test the metal that her ship is made of, and explicitly says that it being too unstable is an option and if so they will just send more spaceships. so in the text of the movie the sacrificed man actually didn't destroy the thing at all, it just self destructed. so the movie is actually entirely about the relationship between the escaped from prison guy and the paired woman character, about how even if you overcome overwhelming odds, the forces of the universe will come and rip the thing you love away from you for no purpose #monsterdon