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The first reaction was aliens. Of course, aliens, aliens have visited our moon, left us secret messages carved in stone. Which were, for some reason, in Greek. That was how the News Satellites portrayed it, and how Alien pandemonium began on Earth. So our little station on the moon, just a little research station and landing point, got flooded with tax dollars/donations/government personnel.

Grecophiles who quoted Plato and Sophocles and Homer filled the Recreational Center, each with increasingly more elaborate explanations and translations of the tablet. The official translation, without the editorial stuff, is relatively simple:

"Erebus has visited this place, and would like to express his disappointment."

From this simple message came stuff about how Erebus was representing Darkness or something, and then his disappointment signified how humans we destroying themselves, or that our technology was inferior. It was aliens first, and then Ancient Greek technology, then Ancient Egyptian Technology, then the whole thing was a hoax, then back to aliens.

By this time, we had enough money to perform a real archaeological dig on the moon, the first one ever. They sent us a letter about it, requiring the scientists and researchers to move out, make room for some goddamn gold diggers. We get shipped back to Earth, and then we have to watch the story unfold on the satellites, ourselves. No interviews, just a little check reimbursing me for being displaced from my job.

And of course they found nothing, and I swear you could hear the disappointed sigh of anti-climax around the world. Back to business.

And we wrote a little proposal to resume our ‘crucial’ research, and it passed without a sound. And they never heard from us again.