“The pyramid? Which part of it?,” I asked while taking a big gulp. That there was a pyramid in front of us was shocking enough, but it was alive and sending signals? “, But we didn’t notice any signals before we landed, right?” I tried to recollect the time before we took the shuttle down to the planet. If there was such an unusual signal detected, we would have flagged it out by one of hundreds of sensors on the scout ship.
“No, Captain. I checked the scanned logs on the ship to be sure. There were no signals coming anywhere from the planet. The only probable explanation is that the signal sent out was too weak. It must be thousands of years since it started sending signals.” Neva tried to make sense of the abnormality in front of him with his rational brain. For someone with a reputation as one of the brightest in the Space Corp, the whole thing must have been a nightmare.
“Then the source of the signal?,” I continued my quest for the answers with the unfinished question.
“Everywhere, captain. The signal is coming from whole pyramid!,” whispered Neva. His eyes were glued to the scanner screen, but we could see his lips were trembling from excitement as he spoke those words. We gathered closer to Neva and looked at the screen he was staring at to him, a scanned image of an entire pyramid, glowing like an X-rayed image of a burning charcoal. At its peak, the signal would have filled the entire underground cavern like a second sun. I wondered if the long-gone residents of this planet could sense the signal as we humanly could see the specific bands of light with our eyes.
“If the pyramid is the source of the signal, then the roof must be,” I wondered aloud.
“Yes. It must be the amplifier,” continued Neva. “This whole setup is a one big communication room, so as to speak,” He stood up and waved his hands around the dome above. “And it is pointing at one specific location in the universe that we could relate to. That is..”
All of us gasped at the implication of that sentence without even having to listen till the end.