Editing The Falthgood Devices (section)

===Into the Past Again===
''([[Tulev VII]] - Underwater Temple Complex, Anti-Chamber - 0751)''

... and he found himself in a room ringed with several high-power transporter enhancers, he could hear their power-hum and could recognize their distinctive whine. He took a deep breath and slowly opened his eyes.
Everything was unchanged, through all the years; everything was exactly as he had left it. 

This was another [[Inchon]] site, a race that was closely related to the [[Iconian]]s and [[Iccobarian]]s. This site, a temple which had sunk deep under the oceans hundreds of years ago, had been one of the first projects he had ever worked on as a fresh young Ensign under the command of a Commander [[Doenitz]].

It had also long-since been abandoned, records of its existence erased.

There were only three people in the universe who remembered its existence at all, the rest had been vaporized after the project had been completed and its technology removed. 

It should have been destroyed, but Fate is fickle and Zach... even then buried up to his nose, hadn't set the charges. The thermal power generator, a device that had burrowed into the mantle-rock to within a few hundred meters of the liquid core, continued to provide power for a set of force-fields which had operated long before Man had been recording history.

Even better, all the technology that the Reverse Engineering group had left behind had remained untouched. Only one person had been in and out of this set of ruins in twenty years, that man was Falthgood. 

He had rigged the entire place to explode if anyone had approached it or beamed in without the proper access codes. And even then, there was only one spot out of twenty-five that could be safely beamed into; otherwise the explosives would go off. Zach had created a place where his secrets could be buried, near-forever if need be. Even so, as Zach looked out one of the 'windows' at the dark, cold sea beyond the protective force-field... he wished he had never had to return. 

Zach stepped off the pad and tapped some long-remembered passwords into the transporter console, disabling all his prior security systems. They would never again be needed after today as he planned on taking everything with him that he had secured here over the years. The Console beeped twice, after which the lights brightened to full luminosity. The entire complex would be powering up now in preparation for people. 

The Scientist crossed his hands behind his back and walked out and into the main corridor. There were elongated portholes all along his left side, he was in an out-side track of the entire complex; it was set up much like a spiral with cross-walkways cutting across the complex at various spots. It would have taken him hours, but he could have followed his current path all the way to the center where the primary power-core lay. 

That wasn't his destination though, and he took the first right into the complex, bypassing much of the 'living' spaces of the temple. After several more minutes he took another turn, followed by another, until he found himself before a storage room, one that had been little used, even when this place had been under full scrutiny. He carefully put his hand against a place and said "Zalahoom, C'kah" A second passed, and then the door opened slowly. Zach hesitated a moment, and then stepped inside...