Apollo 19 Moon Men

 General 

After the closure of the American Apollo program, the court funded one last secret mission; to observe the effects of long exposure to the lunar environment. The court possessed technology beyond the employed rockets, however, to preserve its secrecy, rockets were employed. The mission was called Apollo 19.

Soon after landing on the lunar surface, contact with the astronauts was lost, with only faded audio feeds. The audio seemed to suggest that some catastrophe befell the astronauts before all signal was lost.

In the months after the mission's failure, the family of those astronauts lost that day reported seeing men in space suits in their homes and near them - always on the edge of their vision. Initially, these claims were dismissed as symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder. This was swiftly revised when the families began to go missing with no evidence of forced entry into their homes and more widespread reports of men in space suits reached the local news.

The term "Moon men" was coined by a child whose father was taken, and the name has stuck.

 Description: 

It is difficult to tell if the men in space suits are the astronauts or some other entity posing as them. Therefore any physical description is limited to that of the common image of an astronaut.

The astronauts choose victims with no evident pattern and once chosen, any efforts made to keep that chosen victim alive have thus far failed. The moon men will attack somehow when the victim is alone. No one living has ever seen the men take a victim. Even locked in a cell, the victim will still be taken, irrespective of any security measures.

Due to this, it is believed that the moon men may transport themselves through space at will.

 Containment: 

Of the five Apollo 19 astronauts, three, are currently captive in The Panopticon. Methods to capture them were unusual. The moon men tend to randomly frequent their old homes, and if taken upon using night vision or observations not of the visible spectrum, they may be taken and contained with no resistance.

The moon men are held in a separate wing of The Panopticon, in which all entering persons must wear night vision goggles to view the moon men.

After the capture of three of their comrades, the remaining two have not frequented their homes and have never been seen by anyone alive, though several unsolved cases of disappearances have been linked to the remaining moon men.

Efforts to locate the remaining moon men are understandably limited as there are no known tracking methods effective against them.