Deep Storm - Epilogue

Epilogue

Crane is seen talking to Mcpherson, a high ranking government official. He listens to a recorded tape of Korolis before his death, and agrees with Crane that they should not tell anyone of this discovery, no one was meant to access such powerful weapons. The novel seems to end on a happy note, Crane reasons that whoever put the sentinels there does not want people to blow themselves up but Mcpherson raises two disturbing points: the aliens consider humans to be negligible, thus the violent placing of the devices in the earth, and also that humans deactivate the weapons before storing them, but because the aliens did not attempt this at all, Mcpherson thinks that this is not a waste dump at all; it is an active storage facility of weapons for future use.