The following account was recorded in the agent's log during your transmission: Towering, crystalline monoliths pierce the sky like shards of splintered stone, casting no shadows on the dusty, barren ground. Umm, the air's thick and heavy, charged with an electric tension that's making my skin itch, as a faint, pulsating hum emanates from the monoliths... somehow synchronizing the slow rotation of a massive, black, featureless sphere that's just... stuck in the center of the monoliths. A thin, wispy tendril of cirrus cloud is wrapped around the sphere, frozen in a mid-air knot that's defying the breeze. It's late afternoon judging by the sun's position.