To be fair it's probably all related to EQ1's ancient history that's starting to be unfolded now through various games. The whole story took an arc at 2003 to make way for EQ2 and probably for other games like EQOA but that's not to say that when EQ1's ancient history has finally been dusted off and a few things explained that we can't carry on the way we knew and loved Norrath but with a little more backstory and a few more of the older hidden races. It takes a little while to do it all across 3 games simultaneously and i'm sure it's been a busy busy few years for the devs since 2006. We've always known about the UFO in Qeynos and our alien friend Rodcet Nife since the early days so it's not like they've just run out of ideas and started sticking random things in. Hopefully it'll play out nicely over the next year or so, EQOA, EQ1 and EQ2 will finally be all synchronised lore wise then we start looking at the future rather than the past. *Fingers crossed*