He thought back to the day when he'd found the room. The asteroid had
been drifting and uninhabited for who knows how many thousands of years
when a solitary asteroid miner had found it and discovered that it was
hollow. He had told a few others about his find and eventually Troy
Putnam learned of it. Zimbardo grudgingly admitted to himself that Troy
was a genius-a weak, impractical genius, but a genius nonetheless.
Putnam had found the miner and persuaded him to bring him to the
nearly-invisible asteroid. He had even learned how to use many of the
asteroid's capabilities, and then had made it the base for his foolish
attempt to take over Mars.
Shortly after the pirates had taken residence, Troy Putnam had directed
Lurton to explore the asteroid beyond the few floors the pirates used
and find out everything he could about it. It was a trying assignment.
The first few floors comprised a connected unit and the elevator codes
were easy to learn. Moving anywhere else was a matter of trial and
error, and the access codes were complex.
One day Zimbardo had found the Chamber. There was very little that
could arouse any kind of sensitivity in the wiry, energetic man, but
the Chamber could do so. Maybe it was because no one else knew about it
and no one could see him wrapped in the depths of the emotions the room
could inspire.
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