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"Specifically moon dust? How the hell would THAT thing know?" Adam rightfully points out.
"It didn't but considering the trace amounts of Silicon Dioxide and what the tile was on, it's a decent educated guess."
"Doesn't that mean it had contact with the Moon itself?" Maruyama stares up at the dark orange sky. If you squint just right, you can faintly make out the moon from all of the way down here. "Wait but how the hell does it even any dust at all? You don't just get moon dust by being in space."
"...There has to be someone up there." Alexis whispers through clenched teeth. "Bringing over and landing satellites to maintain old ones and shoot up new ones. 1957 was nearly 300 years ago so you would need someone to constantly maintain them..." <<span class="mu-b">"My father once told me that a long since forgotten part of our family were the first people to walk on the moon..."</span>
Adam taps his knife against one of the tiles, clearly deep in thought. "The average satellite lasts 15 years so they had to burn through, my guess, 19 to 20 of them? That needs a LOT of resources one person can't do by themselves."
"You said something about a signal being broadcasted through the satellite. At least five of them, right?" Maruyama chirps out. "One person couldn't maintain a satellite for 300 years. You need, what, 50 people minimum? Probably more to prevent genetic issues?"
[SEEKER OF THE CITY] Five signals. Five crews of at least 50 people. 250+ people. Up there. In the cosmos.
[SEEKER OF THE CITY] They escaped the City or, at least, as far as you can escape.
[SEEKER OF THE CITY] They still have contact with the City, you imagine, for those who couldn't escape. For those trapped here.
"That would make sense. A lot of the tech I see here is discordant with the usual regulations, norms, and even materials I've seen in other City Tech." Adam nods approvingly at Maruyama's theory. "...Then why the hell are they hiding up there?"
[PERSON OF INTEREST] "That's the only place they can't reach them." You mutter to yourself. The only thing that would be shipped up there is maybe some new materials or food but even then, it might be fully self sufficient up there. "Y-Corp has something to do with this."
"Y-Corp?" Adam cocks an eyebrow. "The teleportation company? The hell would they invest in space travel?"
"In case things go cock up down here." Maruyama seems to piece something together. "This is a backup plan. 300 years in the making."
"...I envy them. At least up there, there's nothing to worry about but your-" Alexis interrupts herself. "I'm going inside."
>SPACE AGE SATELLITE info revealed! (A backup program meant to keep a subsection of Y-Corp and possibly I-Corp residents safely tucked away in the cosmos. You know the Yue family see it as the only thing not 'corrupted' in the world. The only question left is why the satellite was shot down.)
Adam and Alexis promptly head back inside of the steakhouse while Maruyama stays outside with you.
