I'll post it here, for easier reference:
QUOTE (Ishmael)
We had also developed two completely different origins for the Tacitus, and since both stories leveraged that origin, I'm trying to remember what each included.
One was centered around the Tacitus being a soul-prison for the leader of the martian force that fought against the Scrin (they knew how to beat the Scrin, but discovered it too late) while the Earth was still primordial,
and the other was centered around the Scrin rebels stealing the "bible" of the Scrin -- which may or may not have been written by them in the first place -- and the Scrin Primal's crusade to recover it.
QUOTE (Ishmael)
We went back and forth on just where the Tacitus came from, but the translation of it is really the key -- what some may interpret as a warning from it could really be written prophecy or even an instruction manual to other eyes, depending on who is reading it and what they want to get from it.
I think involving the martians as a
faction might complicate it a bit too much. Yeah the Bible thing sounds like a better idea-