So, it may be that we are working in a cycle. [The thought has occurred to her. Everything about these monoliths proves it. Still, therein lies the next question:] Did we arrive with them or are we the "next" to come? Depending, we may have been intended to be with them, but somehow managed to be found much later. Someone had to wake the first of us up, after all.

[Someone ... or something. Reason states.]

If they knew there would be others to arrive, they may have built this city expecting it to be a beacon. They may have left behind these memories to inform others that there were others before them. They may have expected it.

[But then, that means the hull was left untouched, as were their pods. Did they not think to look, or did they travel a similar path, with the same hull, covered again by years of wear and tear?

It's difficult to say.]