If a solar flare hit earth, that would enable the Apex Players to unleash satellite weapons and blame it on the sun–a cosmic false flag.
No doubt they would release pathogens too.
After killing 99% and setting us back thousands of years, they could emerge from their DUMB’s and from off-world and be the gods, pharaohs, Nephilim, messiahs, Annunaki …. and rewrite history.
Imagine the impotence of the handful of Cassandras 3 generations later who will insist that history was different.
AI and robotics would make such a gambit more successful.
To ensure that enough of them survive before, during, and after their emergence, they would need sanctuaries across diverse venues. They would need to be unreachable by angry mobs, and they would need to be unreachable by their own weapons.
To ensure their supremacy, they must survive with their technology in tact.
To maximize their survivability and supremacy, they would have to also be off-world, such as on space stations, moon bases, and Mars.
Perhaps that is why Mars is suddenly so important.
Perhaps this has all happened before.