Their attempt eventually miscarried, because they had underestimated certain dangerous developments that ultimately happened contrary to all expectations and calculations.
Such world-wide cataclysms appear in myth:
the Egyptian Papyrus Ipuwer (“The sun set where it rose”)
the tomb of Senmut (showing Orion-Sirius painted in reverse position)
the Finnish Kalevala (“the earth turned round like a potter’s wheel”),
the Popol Vuh (describing fire showering down from heaven)
This indicates that our planet more than once has suffered world-wide catastrophe.