Swamped

It's kind of funny that you keep seeing large groups of insects. These beetles, the strange mass of dead bugs on the ship, the ones spelling out a message back in your own time...

Wait. You wonder for a moment if these beetles are doing the same. For all you know, the gods might not be bound by the limits of time. And if they were trying to contact you specifically, then it would make sense to use an insect you'd recognize to get your attention...

There doesn't seem to be any sort of pattern to their movement, though, so that's probably not it.

Wait, you thought there wasn't, but now you notice that most of the beetles are running back and forth between two spots. What if Qlat is trying to send a message through time, but the Qlat in this time period is trying to get the beetles to do something else? You can't say for sure the gods can't interfere with themselves across time, since you don't know much about how they operate, or how time travel does for that matter.

Suppose that's it. Is there any way you could resolve the problem?