They hunt on the same nights because the night is theirs.
Thirty-eight of forty-seven recorded contacts fall near full moon. One light triggers one and burns the other.
Full moon as mutual kill-zone
Contact pathology · Shared photochemistryPlate · OVERLORD · Full moon as mutual kill-zone · theoretical reconstruction
of Earth, Moon, Sun; a -band callout at 410–420 nanometres; forty-seven contacts, thirty-eight clustered within seventy-two hours of astronomical full moon. They hunt the same nights because the photochemistry is shared, not because the night is theirs.
Of forty-seven verified contact incidents in the Committee archive, thirty-eight fall within seventy-two hours of astronomical full moon. An analyst flagged the clustering in 2008 and was told lunar effects on human behaviour had been debunked. The analyst was tracking the wrong species. Opposition surge is the ignition key. It is also Soret-band light — 410 to 420 nanometres — sitting on the 's film. The same geometry that turns the key in one organism loads the photosensitiser in the other.
A full-moon engagement is therefore a mutual kill-zone: Lycians at maximum hydraulic capacity, haemophages photochemically stressed even by reflected light, both sensory systems screaming. They do not share the night because they like it. They share it because the sky forces the appointment.