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He took out his PDA, dialed a number, and waited for the recipient to answer. She did after two rings.

"Silicis here," she said. "What is it?"

"Sil, we might have a problem."

"Can you expound on that?"

"I got the orb back as planned and we ran tests on it as usual and we found something that we don't like. The orb was a fake."

"What?"

"The orb is man-made technology. By the time I got it here, it had lost half its energy."

"…I see."

"You don't sound all that surprised."

"If you had called me about three hours earlier, I might have sounded surprised."

"…You found something strange too?"

"Team Logos have done all the digging they could and so far everything we've seen so far have pointed to the same thing. From what we found we were already expecting the orb to be fake. Watcher, we weren't the fist ones here, nor was Chang, or that expedition that discovered this place in the late eighties. Someone found this place first and replaced the orb."

"Can't you find evidence of where the real orb might be?"

"If we could we would've done that already. No, the only thing we can determine for sure was when the orb was replaced. And even that…well…"

"When was the orb replaced?"

"You sure you want to know?"

"Yes."

"Well…about a hundred and forty years ago."

"…What the…?"

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