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A lot of old familiar faces are popping up recently, I wonder what this is all about...
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I guess its still possible this is something related to "the ancients" or another alien race beyond the "Ghosts" but feels unlikely.
Personally I'd be worried that a race bent on avoiding detection and discovery might have left any device behind with special self-destruct mechanisms.
We could do a "tally" here on the forum....
I would think ; "ghost" but unmanned, to keep us in suspense...
sort of a automated surveillance station.
so 1 for Ghosts
If that's an Ancients' installation, we could just as well do a time jump to the expedition coming back aboard to report that all they could do was to throw rocks at an unmoving and invulnerable door. Also, why would such an installation generate heat that needs to be bled off through the "anomaly" in the first place? They seem to usually be completely inert ...
Some umpteenth, so far unknown party having erected the site would of course be possible, and quite the plot twist, after all the talk about ghosts. Million dollar question however, how long would it take everyone to realize that the guys who've built it are in fact not the ghosts they were looking for? Sounds like a plot twist on a pretty long-running timer, if so.
So, in conclusion ... the ghosts are still the most likely perps here.
(... he said, secretly expecting that the moon "wakes up", turns to have its "dark" side pointing to Earth, and opens its lids to reveal that it's in fact a giant eyeball. With lasers. )
Just because all Ancient's tech found so far has been inert doesn't mean there isn't a chance of finding an active device in the future.
There's also the idea that humans travelled to the moon between 1969 and 1972 with Zane noting that the cases of "Ghosts" among humans appear to have peaked in the 70's and faded since. Its uncertain what this could mean.
Maybe the moon device is much older and humans visiting the moon caught the "Ghosts" attention or maybe it was setup there because of those visits.
Maybe it's the Ghosts researching or using Ancient tech.