“Most have scattered to the mountains,” Moussa says as we near what the sect called the Cantina. “They will talk to us, but no one else.” It was Moussa who discovered last month’s carnage. As he closed upon the small settlement with his herd in tow, he saw something wrong. “Many times when I passed at dawn, they played with sticks, either blue or red in color, hitting each other. That day I saw buzzards. Going closer there were many bodies. Some were burried. Others not.” Those bodies were now gone, taken by the Red Cross but the “sticks” lay on ground, already being buried by the gusting sand.

Knowing the Cantina building to be a mosque originally, our producer asks Moussa if he thinks religion may have been behind the attacks. “No,” he answers. Moussa then takes from under his coat a wine bottle.  Passing it to our cameraman, Moussa says, “Look not towards Mecca but west, to Napa.”

Moussa and others claim to have found several drained bottles of 2002 Skywalker Ranch Viandante del Cielo Chardonnay around the massacre site. These bottles fueled rumors that Lucasfilm was holding a summit with the sect, which ended with misunderstanding and bloodshed.  While this theory posted on Metafilter by a user with the screen name “Yoda’s Choda,” the State Department is taking it seriously enough to investigate the movements of several Lucasfilm executives in the last month.

Yet with sect members still in hiding and the vastness of the desert itself, a full picture of what happened at New Alderaan is not likely anytime soon.