End of the Year

Yep.  Been neglecting my blog again.  Between trying to get my next book out and my day job, I have not had much time for non-book writing.

Since this is the end of the year, I thought I'd take a break from my Steampunk story that is currently occupying my writing time, and play for a bit.

Let's toss out an idea--not one that I am going to fiddle with myself.  This is just a story starter.  Take it and run with it.  Just give me the favor of a shout out.

What if . . . when civilian/commercial space flight (like Virgin Galactic) does take off, they get around to the "dark" side of the moon (you know--the one facing away from the Earth) and they find the remains of an advanced civilization?

Would NASA/Gov't squash it?  "That's classified!"  They most likely would already know about it from our own flights to the moon and back.  Would they even allow civilian pace flight?  Or make it so improbable through over-regulating that we would have to sneak off planet for find something like this?  At what point would someone like Sir Richard Branson tell the US government to lump it?

What if it was still inhabited?  How could they possibly be living in vacuum?  Did they manage to mine water from beneath the surface?  What if they didn't need water or an atmosphere?

What if they didn't know about us until then?

What if their government did know about us, but was keeping us a secret from their civilian population, too?

What then?