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The Altamont Object

Discovered during a SANDMAN dig at Altamont, and later transported to Granite Peak, the Object was excavated from the school bus-sized pit dug by irruptor servant Frank DiGiuseppe, intended as the site for his act of mass child sacrifice.

The Object stands eight feet tall in total. The presumed top is dominated by a wide, flat funnel, five feet wide at the top, narrowing to a six-inch recess that leads into the machine. The entire body is made of cunningly-wrought bronze. Pipes and (intact!) glass containers dominate the middle part of the machine, along with four very prominent smoky crystals, mounted on four sides of the machine. At the bottom is a small chute, very much reminding the observer of a dispenser of some kind.

Due to the area being untouched by the belief of mass numbers of humanity, the Object bears almost all of the marks of History B/Anunnaki manufacture. As Dr. Quarles explained to Archie Ransom:

if we’d found this in Iraq it might look like a stone jug with a bunghole at the bottom. In Europe, maybe a mysteriously preserved Roman wooden barrel. But this area ... even when the Indians were abroad in northern California, this area's population density was extremely low. So you end up with features of irruptor craft and technology predominating.

Upon excavation, Charley communed with the machine and reported that:

It’s for making food. Space-age food. The crops go in the top, and then a little pill comes out the bottom.

With raw food materials fed into the top, the machine will extract the nutrients necessary for human nutrition, distill these substances (and their caloric value) into a powder, and press the powder into a tablet about a quarter-inch in diameter. This “food pill” weighs a little over a gram and is equivalent to a single meal ration.