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The thing about Kara is that she’s an unreliable narrator. She left Krypton at 12. Obviously she’s going to be somewhat biased, and like she herself said when she was talking to Astra as a child-no one would tell her anything. And Kara tends to believe the best in people. Alex was lying to Kara for years about working for the DEO, and she never knew until she was literally brought to the organization’s headquarters. Kara isn’t exactly the hardest person to fool, despite the supersenses, because she always believes the best in the people she loves. And she loves her mother, “the best woman who ever lived” is how she described her when she wasn’t thinking, when it was all instinctive. Alura’s faction is extreme, but like Kara asked to the hologram, “But was she right?” Because Krypton is gone and could Astra have saved it?

But can you imagine, for Astra? Kara might have been asleep all those decades she was in the pod, but Astra wasn’t. I’m not ignoring the fact that Astra deceived them, but I don’t think she was entirely lying to Kara. Astra says that she loves Kara like a daughter, and I’m inclined to believe her.She had very little reason to lie to Kara when she saw her for the last
time on Krypton, thinking that they wouldn’t see each other for a long
time, if ever again– “I couldn’t love a daughter more than if Ra
granted me a child of my own” (and complete side note omg now I want
Kara to talk more about Kryptonian religion thanks). 

More than 30 years, she held onto the spy beacon, not knowing what happened to Kara. Not knowing if, just maybe, Alura might have listened to her. Might have thought of some contingency plan and figured out a way to save Kara, at least. She didn’t know if Kara was dead or alive. And still she held on to it, held on to the only thing she had of Kara and she never knew what happened to her niece. When they crashed, I wonder how much she looked for Kara, how many places she searched not knowing anymore what Kara would look like because she didn’t know that Kara got trapped in the Phantom Zone too, looking at people in their 30′s and 40′s and wondering if her niece looked almost the same age as her now, not knowing she should be looking in schools instead. Seeing Superman with the giant symbol of the house of El on his chest and knowing how much Kara would have loved her baby cousin, she looks for any sign of her, she’d never leave the last of her family alone and Kara has the heart of a hero, she’d be trying to save people if she could. Astra doesn’t know that Kara is still a young girl, not yet ready, and year after year it becomes less likely that Kara is alive and it’s been over a decade without results and maybe Alura didn’t get her off planet after all. 

Astra probably thought that Kara was dead, and she still kept the spy beacon, she had no reason to anymore but as a reminder of Kara and I’m just emotional because Astra loves Kara and what if Astra is actually the hero, not Alura.

2 years later I CALLED IT