Episode 6

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That got real dark, real fast.

And it is starting to appear that Aerial is the true ethical nightmare mobile suit, not the similarly terrible stuff the Three Houses are up to.

If the remark at the beginning where it had been 21 years since [cut off by Elnora] is referring to the destruction of Vanadis and not deliberately misleading us by actually referring to an earlier event that occurred between the doctor and Bel, then Eri should be 25, not 17. The biggest grudge in Elnora's life that Bel was referring to has to be losing her husband and the rest of her adoptive family, and the simplest solution for that apparent mismatch in time is that Suletta is a clone.

Elnora is purposefully taunting former colleagues with Aerial and Suletta to draw them out and destroy them for her revenge to be complete.

Worse still, there's absolutely no reason the Bit Staves should manifest as individual Ericht phantoms to someone else deep in Permet synchronization unless there really is something horribly wrong with the way Aerial was built. They've been hinting at Aerial really being a true sibling to Suletta for a while, and Elnora refers to both of them in a kinda off way. As in, which one is really the daughter that she trusts; the girl living out her wishlist or the Gundam. The Bit Staves are "better controlled" than even an engineered cyborg at Permet Score 4 can manage, so maybe the main body isn't the only thing with something inside it, which would explain the phantoms even more.

I didn't want to believe it, but there's a strong possibility now that the "solution" to the data storms was to put a human brain inside a mobile suit to moderate it for the pilot. Maybe the opportunity arose when Ericht got hurt the same way that Elnora is pretending (horrible radiation burns from Mercury's environment) and the two agreed to start their revenge when Ericht was 8 years old.

Or maybe this is further misdirection yet, similar to the real Elan standing in the wings, meaning Ericht is in hiding as well and will appear in 2nd part. If that's the case, maybe Aerial and Suletta are twin clones.

Hard to gauge what the "simplest" answer is.