I think its obvious to anyone with half a brain that we've done some fucked up shit in our research of Deepwell. We've bribed the federal government and law enforcement to look the other way, we lie to the public under oath more than one can shake a stick at, and there are several departments of the Authority willing to militarize these anomalies (and I don't think I need to tell you how that might backfire). But perhaps our worse sin is the fact we use live humans as test subjects so we don't have to sacrifice our own personnel. And because they're all from death row, no one cares.
"They've committed horrible crimes and were sentenced to death anyway. At least this way, they can still be useful and serve their country," we tell ourselves and the inmates. Deep down, I think we all know its a lie, but we're all too self-motivated and curious to care. Afterall, we're light-years away from the main centers of population and anything bad that happens here is self-contained, right? I think not.
In the minds of the people we keep here against their will, they know they can't truly escape. They know they can't board a starship and wormhole their way to the next star system without being boarded or blown up. They know they can't overthrow the leadership of the Forward Bases, because we'd just wait for them to starve to death as we leave them out exit on this barren moon. So what is their only option? Descend into the Deepwell Facility.
The Deepwell Facility is full of things the average person would call angels or demons or spirits. It is full of unexplainable horrors that can and will warp you into something utterly inhuman. We send men and women down there to met and die, every day, for the last 10 years.
Did we seriously not think there'd be survivors? Did we seriously not think they'd start worshiping those anomalies as angels, demons, and spirits?
We might pretend to be men and women of serious scientific rhetoric, but we're not. We're more a cult pretending not to be. Our worship is not done through traditional prayer of getting down on our knees and professing the greatness of a higher deity. No, ours's is done through spreadsheets, reports, graduated cylinders, and sterile labs. Well, I believe God does exist, but in a different sense, and not in the form we think or what them to be.