Muska, Sheeta, and Muska's two henchmen descend into the black dome on an elevator platform.
To his amazement, she initially appears weightless.
He sends a message to the general that they'll be departing on time.
A giant helicopter-ship is shown rising into the air, with the hull of an ocean liner and numerous rotors possibly an exodus in search of new resources, as the factories surrounding it are now dark and motionless , and then a Laputa-like city appears, with the aforementioned rotors.
The Laputian robot is inspired by Paul Grimault's 1953 film Le Roi et l'Oiseau, said to be one of Miyazaki and Takahata's favorites.
However, after the civilization reached too high an altitude, the Laputians lost their vitality, and the population gradually declined, until they died out as a result of a strange disease that broke out abruptly around 500 BCE.