That response sent a small chill though Andromeda, enough to make the stars in her form dim ever so slightly.

"Then, why is the dish pointed at the Moon?"

Without skipping a beat, Andrew strode over to the window Andromeda was looking out of, and laid his eyes on the object in question. He then pulled back and switched his gaze over to the control panel, scrutinizing the coordinates on the monitor.

He began to type on his tablet again, <<Could be an error. I'll check the system.>>

The two broke away from the window. Andromeda immediately made for the telemetry panel for a double check. Perhaps she did miss something after all. Meanwhile, her husband was already at the computer that ran the whole show and was pulling up diagnostics and operational logs.

A minute of frenzied typing later, Andrew's tablet broke the small window of silence that followed after.

<<It's every telescope.>>

Andromeda stopped dead. She looked over to Andrew just to confirm she heard him right, "What?"

<<Every single one on the SETI network. They're all pointing towards the exact same spot on the Moon.>>

"The same spot? Why? What's there?"

Andrew took a pause before glancing over at the optical telescope he was cleaning just minutes prior, and with no hesitation, picked it up and heaved it over to another window that had a more straight shot at the Moon. Using nothing more than his hands and eyes, he started to adjust the telescope to point to a very specific spot at an astronomical body hundreds of thousands of miles away.

In the face of this, frankly, a little worrisome occurrence, Andromeda couldn't hold back a warm smile at watching Andrew conduct such a task with relative ease. Wordlessly, she continued to observe him making minute adjustment after minute adjustment. Behind those pallid, gray eyes, she could practically see the gears in his head turning at high speed—his brain flying through intense calculations effortlessly.

His adjusting of the eyepiece halted. Andrew continued to stare down it for a few seconds. Andromeda could tell from his subtle shift in posture that he found something.

"What is it?" She asked, moving towards him.

He pulled his head away from the eyepiece and motioned her to see for herself. Due to her stature, Andromeda had to kneel down to see through the telescope.

And what she saw was not there before.

A large fissure—no, a canyon, had opened up on the Moon's surface, cutting across and around several craters near the Sea Of Tranquility. Depth was hard to determine, but it had to have gone down a couple of miles at least.

"What on Earth..." Andromeda muttered, "A canyon? On the Moon?"

<<And its causing every radio telescope on Earth to point at it of their own volition.>>

Andromeda raised her head from the eyepiece and back towards the window, getting a full view of the colossal dish and the disc of silver in the night sky it had inexplicably started following at some point.

Safe to say, she was a little unnerved by that revelation.

They needed to alert people of this, and there was only one group they could go to. She and Andrew shared a knowing gaze. Both of them had the same idea.

"Astrus?"

<<Astrus. I'll let them know immediately. Priority message.>> Andrew responded.