Rynason looked more closely at the complex. It was definitely Outsiders
work, but what was it? Part of the Altar of Kor, obviously, but the
Outsiders telecommunicators had never used such extensive machinery. Yet
it did look familiar. He tried to remember the different types of
Outsiders machinery which had been found and partially reconstructed by
the advancing Earthmen in the centuries past. There weren't many....
Then, suddenly, he had it, and it was so simple that he was surprised he
hadn't thought of it before.
"This is Kor," he said. "It's not a communicator--it's a computer. An
Outsiders computer."
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Mara's frown deepened; she looked around them in the dimness, her eyes
taking in the complexity and extent of the circuitry. It faded into the
darkness behind them; lines ran into the walls and floor.
"They built their computers in the grand manner, didn't they?" she said
softly.
"I've seen fragments of them before," Rynason said. "This is a big
one--no telling how much area the total complex takes up.
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