Series 1899 is one of the biggest hits of the year for Netflix. Not only because of his impeccable script, but also because he managed to create a whole phenomenon of speculation around him. Especially among the fans who spend a lot of time and effort scrutinizing the plot in an attempt to unravel its mysteries. The production achieved what few stories achieve: become an object of admiration and questions from the audience.
Most of them concerned the Kerberos, the transatlantic ship that became the central scene of the entire story. AT 1899, the ship is the center of a slow journey into the unknown and the source of all sorts of questions about its true nature. Especially the ones that deal with how the show analyzes reality, time, identity, and the perception of what’s believable.
What is Kerberos? The issue also extends to the missing Prometheus, a sister ship that disappeared at sea. His new appearance is the beginning of a journey into the depths of an increasingly intricate, unique and extravagant story that surprises with its nuances. But much more for his ability to develop an attentive vision of the mysterious, striking in its effectiveness.
Ship, darkness and time in 1899
Basically, Kerberos is the main scenario in which all the strange circumstances surrounding the characters in 1899. From its first chapters, it is clear that in addition to the ship, this is also something more unique. After all, it houses technologies that are inexplicable even for passengers, who quickly realize that, despite the appearance, this is not a simple design. This duplicity about the quality of Kerberos defies explanation Despite the obvious appearance, this is one of the strengths 1899. If this is not a ship, even if it does not seem to be anything else, then what is it really?
plot 1899 things get even more mysterious when the crew of the Kerberos receive an encrypted message from the Prometheus, a ship that had disappeared months earlier. The ship has the same characteristics as the first, making it a kind of twin in its main characteristics. The peculiarity is that both of them are united by an inexplicable technology that turns them into zero points of the plot. What happens in Kerberos also happens in Prometheus. Even evidence of the inexplicable technology that makes it a completely unusual marine item.
As if the above wasn’t enough, Prometheus turns out to be almost empty. Only a boy named Elliot and crew member Daniel are on board. Ultimately, both will be proof that both Kerberos and Prometheus are more than just ships or even real. Particularly in mythology 1899the way reality is mapped and intertwined with something more complex.
Both ships are simulations of reality, one superimposed on the other. In fact, there are as many simulations as there are failed attempts to complete the main story, which is only revealed in the final chapters of the book. 1899. In fact, nothing that the show shows is real, other than reproductions of the mental images of the passengers on board. The fact that ultimately defines Kerberos and Prometheus as prisons of perception for their passengers. Each of them (the previous simulation and subsequent ones) are interconnected by a broad idea of the concept of the substance of reality.
An endless loop that starts and ends on a Kerberos ship
As a reality configuration boundary, Kerberos and Prometheus act as expressions of what passengers can remember. Much stranger is the fact that they are the scene of an endless repetition of the same idea, linked to something more complex.

Therefore the reality is 1899 it does not exist except in various places – scenarios, perspectives – that can be projected by simulations. Something in which Kerberos plays a significant differentiating role and which, after all, allows Maura to reveal the elusive identity of the creator of such an endless cycle.
