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The Fourth Interview of Dr. Jamisson Neruda
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Dr. Neruda: “Representatives of the Central Race.”
Sarah: “So what happened next after you realized it was a homing beacon”
Dr. Neruda: “A team was dispatched to the area and we essentially followed the device to
the interior structure of the Ancient Arrow site, which you’re already aware of.”
Sarah: “You said earlier that this artifact was the most amazing of the entire find. If it was
simply a homing device, then the other artifacts I assume were fairly mundane.”
Dr. Neruda: “To be more accurate, I can’t say it was the most interesting since I defected
before all the other artifacts were sent through the I-Steps process, but it was a very
advanced technology and one of the most enigmatic we had come across in quite a while.
“For example, once our team came within a certain distance of the site, the artifact animated
under some undetermined energy source and scanned our group. It was literally reading our
bodies and minds, presumably to determine if we were suitable to discover the site.”
Sarah: “And if you weren’t suitable”
Dr. Neruda: “It was never discussed, but I think everyone assumed it would probably have
destroyed the site and all those present at the time of the scanning. As it was, it only
destroyed itself.”
Sarah: “And you had no idea that it was capable of these feats when you examined it”
Dr. Neruda: “None whatsoever. Its casing was resistant to all of our invasive analyses. It
was a real source of frustration. In fact, the artifact in the twenty-third chamber was similarly
vexing and required significantly more resources to complete the I-Steps process.”
Sarah: “Are these the only two artifacts from the site that you’ve completed the I-Steps
process”
Dr. Neruda: “Yes, prior to my defection. But there were artifacts in every chamber,
although the one discovered in chamber twenty-three seemed the most important.”
Sarah: “And why was that”
Dr. Neruda: “Remember that I described the interior of the site as a helix shaped tunnel
system”
Sarah: “Yes.”
Dr. Neruda: “The uppermost chamber was the twenty-third chamber and in it was the
optical disc. While the other chambers held artifacts similar in size and composition to the
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