– Why are its craters shallow? Is its rock denser? Then, why does its density equal only 60% of the earthly one? Is it hollow?
– Or, is it a galaxy ship put out of service?
Questions, questions, questions…
Super Queen-Mother started to fly around the Moon. The moon landscapes spellbound her with its emptiness and quietness.
Super Queen-Mother was flying at great speed; nevertheless, she had time to look over everything unusual on the Moon’s surface. There were many queer things.
She flew over huge, seventy-foot high blocks, cut, polished and set inside the crater.
Ruins of an old town inside a meteorite crater surprised her. It was a square with a side more than one and a half mile long.
Super Queen-Mother divided everything she saw into dangerous and interesting things. She did not ask herself what they were and how they had appeared there. Super Queen-Mother just registered in her memory that they were on the Moon.
She flew over big semitransparent castles, long pipelines, arches and bridges.
Super Queen-Mother saw pits and gaps.
One of them resembled a heel print, sixty-eighty feet deep.
There were also huge pits with right angles, looking like commercial developments of mineral ore.
She flew over enormous, strange constructions, scattered in disorder.
She saw many interesting things on the Moon’s surface, but could not compare them to the dangerous ones.
The only thing that alerted Super Queen-Mother was a cave two hundred feet in diameter. She did not find any other holes on the Moon.
Super Queen-Mother decided to examine it. She landed and came up to its entrance. Its dark walls were fire-polished and smooth, without any visible sag. The rough floor was homogeneous lunar rock, melted into a single mass.
Super Queen-Mother came into the cave. The first one hundred feet of the passage were straight, and then it curved, leading inside the planet. It resembled the caverns on Earth, left by magma streams.
Super Queen-Mother went farther. The passage widened and came abruptly to an end. She stopped at the edge of a huge abyss.
It was a giant cavern.
Far below she saw opaque light, coming from a big column, about half a mile high and fifty-sixty feet in diameter.
It went out of the center of an enormous ribbed semi-sphere, which was smoothly moving counterclockwise at uniform speed. The ribs and the blanks had the same width.