2152.3.04.15
Search teams failed to recover the glyphs washed away in last month’s storms. If adequate protections had been placed around the Morn temple site the glyphs would still be intact. The storms eroded away the west side of Grist Hill revealing a new building complex. Preliminary surveys indicate this may be a part of the defense network.
My work to uncover the energy sources used to power such a massive civilization proceeds. Since my return to Sear our team found signatures of large-scale fusion reactions centered on the temple complexes. We hope to find reactors housed beneath the temples but work must be completed on the entry sequences before we can proceed into the temples.
Earth’s support is waning despite the opportunities this abandoned planet holds. My support of the security staff is waning after the breach of my privacy in the lavatory this morning. The guards have begun calling me “Handyman” since the incident.
2152.6.06.24
Research team Gamma was lost today in the Morn Temple. Dr. Still’s translation of the entry sequence was incorrect. Contrary to our previous assessment many power grids are still active as well as internal defense mechanisms. When Still presents his new translations to the Governing Authority I will suggest robots be sent in first to prevent further loss of life.
The incident at Morn temple has strained relations among settlers and research staff. Governor Hawass released a scathing assessment of my research. In his opinion I should have known there was an active power source on the planet. How was I supposed to know a planet abandoned for seven thousand years would have working infrastructure?
Pressure to provide answers weighs on my staff and I. The Grist Hill site proved to be a storehouse for crystal rods. I believe these may be controls for the power system, but as people disbelieved my previous theories, so they don’t believe the rods are part of any power system.
Granted, I don’t know what function they would serve within a fusion reactor or why they would be stored so far away from reactors. The text inscribed on the walls of the storehouses is only beginning to be deciphered. Perhaps time will prove me right.
2153.1.01.02
Earth’s interest in the research we are doing here on Sear has multiplied exponentially since the discovery of an active fusion reactor within the Morn Temple. We are still unsure what fuel the reactor is using. The reactor should have shut down millennia ago. We have managed to clean up the old control rooms and matched symbols throughout the complex with corresponding symbols on the crystal rods found at Grist Hill.
We began pairing crystals with their receptacles in Morn Temple. Work was halted after a purple aura began emanating from the fusion reactor. Governor Hawass is attempting to override my precautions through the Governing Authority. Until we know the purpose of the crystals and how to control the reactor I do not believe we should proceed any further.
2153.3.01.04
The Governing Authority ordered resumption of work at the Morn Temple. The crystal rods have all been moved from Grist Hill and placed within the temple. There has been no escalation of power output or the purple aura around the reactor.
2153.5.01.06
Governor Hawass ordered the Sear Protection Forces to protect the Morn Temple from rioters. Riots erupted across the planet as people report demon sightings. Panic has gripped the population while doctors blame the abnormal ‘ocular occurrence’s’ on a peculiar magnetic field surrounding the planet. I would not believe the stories coming from the cities if I had not seen a fox wander through my office walls this morning.
2153.4.02.01
The crystal rods are amplifying the effect produced by the reactor in Morn Temple. Many people have gone missing since Morn was reactivated. I began reviewing translations relevant to the temple sites and I believe I found their purpose. They are not power reactors. The energy field they generate appears to be way to evolve the planetary population. What we will become is unknown to me at this point.