:51:02
even their
cloud-piercing towers...
:51:04
of glass and porcelain
and adamantine steel...
:51:07
have crumbled back into
the soil of Altair-4...
:51:10
and nothing, absolutely nothing
remains above ground.
:51:14
What were they like?
:51:17
No record of their
physical nature has survived...
:51:20
except, perhaps, in the form
of this characteristic arch.
:51:25
I suggest you consider it
in comparison to one of our...
:51:28
functionally designed human doorways.
:51:47
That recording was made by Krell
musicians a half a million years ago.
:51:53
If you will follow me, I will show you
some of their other remaining artifacts.
:52:13
Krell metal.
Try your blaster there, Commander.
:52:32
This spot should be molten.
:52:34
It's not even warm,
and no trace of radioactivity.
:52:38
The molecules are many times
more densely interlocked...
:52:41
than in earthly steel...
:52:43
yet it drinks up energy
like a sponge.