"So they thoroughly destroyed them, just so they could become them." Typical politics. Except typical politics doesn't span generations of cover-ups and violently-enforced secrecy. "Are there still survivors? Well, descendants of survivors." Probably not, but it would be interesting to know what stories they tell.
Talking about all this, about powerful government conspiracies and secret cabals of scholars who were subsequently destroyed— it makes him think just a little about the situation he left behind in his own world. They'd been hired on to assist in the investigation of something very, very old. And then they'd started dying. It's not too much of a stretch to think that someone might not have wanted something found.
Did he really die for such a stupid reason? Didn't they know how easy he was to pay off? Or maybe they took the "no chances" approach. Whatever happened, it's a discussion for a time that isn't right now.
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"So they thoroughly destroyed them, just so they could become them." Typical politics. Except typical politics doesn't span generations of cover-ups and violently-enforced secrecy. "Are there still survivors? Well, descendants of survivors." Probably not, but it would be interesting to know what stories they tell.
Talking about all this, about powerful government conspiracies and secret cabals of scholars who were subsequently destroyed— it makes him think just a little about the situation he left behind in his own world. They'd been hired on to assist in the investigation of something very, very old. And then they'd started dying. It's not too much of a stretch to think that someone might not have wanted something found.
Did he really die for such a stupid reason? Didn't they know how easy he was to pay off? Or maybe they took the "no chances" approach. Whatever happened, it's a discussion for a time that isn't right now.