Free Titan Six by Christopher Forrest

to use the basic molecular structures of metals as a grid upon which to introduce organic components.”
    “Organic?” asked DJ.
    “Yes,” said Ambergris.  “Notice how the Sents repaired themselves and how the cube itself is capable of changing color, texture, and form.  This implies that the organic materials are programmed.”
    “By what?” asked Caine.
    “By the most sophisticated programming system known to all living things on earth: DNA.  This organic feature of the cube’s structure is also why it’s thought responsive to those who get near to it, or at least certain sections of it.”
    “The hallucinations,” Nguyen said.  “Is this why our engineers are ill?”
    “Exactly.  An unfortunate side effect of the hallucinations, when prolonged, is cellular breakdown, accompanied by damage to DNA.  The energy from the cube can, in some instances, be overwhelming to the human nervous system.”
    “But why isn’t T6 getting sick?’ Nguyen asked.  “They’ve had several hallucinations.”
    “Because of you, Grace.  The latest BioMEMS injections against genetic mutations have been protecting them.”
    “What about those branching networks of lines we see in the semi-transparent walls?” asked Caine.
    “We’re literally observing electrical impulses crossing nerve synapses.  I’ll know even more when I see the results from Hawkeye’s metal sample.”
    The Ops Center was silent while those at their stations assimilated the import of what Ambergris had said.
    “What about the structures T6 found in the cube’s lab,” Caine said.  “On those mirrors.”
    “Did you notice the crystal buildings and the pyramid?” Ambergris asked.
    “Yes, of course,” said Caine, “and — ”
    Caine halted abruptly.
    Ambergris nodded his head.  “We are confronted yet again by the technology of the Ancients.”
    * * *
     
    Years earlier, Joshua Ambergis, Grace Nguyen, and other Titan Global scientists had discovered that seemingly random sequences on strands of DNA consisted of nonrandom patterns containing huge amounts of information that came to be called The Genesis Code.
    The Code had been implanted on the human genome by a progenitor civilization that had gone extinct two hundred thousand years ago.  To preserve and pass on its highly advanced culture because of an impending cataclysm, it coded human DNA with almost unlimited information in numerous cultural and scientific areas: architecture, energy production, healing, metaphysics, history, genetics, and hundreds of other fields.  Titan Global was still working on unlocking the Code that was contained on trillions of DNA sequences that were previously thought to be useless fillers called introns. 
    What was known for certain was that architecture from Central and South America, Egypt, Southeast Asia, and the Middle East had been heavily influenced by the architecture of the Ancients.  Intermediate cultures going back thousands of years had passed down some of the rudiments of the progenitor civilization.
    The United States government was aware of the discovery and had outsourced research on the Code to Titan Global for security reasons.
    * * *
     
    “So the Ancients built the cube?” Caine asked.
    “There’s really no other explanation,” Ambergris said.  “We know that they were master manipulators of DNA and had extremely advanced technology.  The architecture displayed on those lab mirrors validates the hypothesis.”
    “So we have two pressing questions,” said Caine.  “Why did the Ancients build the cube, and who are the human inhabitants within?”
    “We need to find where that last transmission originated from,” Touchdown said.  “The three people on those screens are apparently in charge of the soldiers in the brown uniforms.”
    “That transmission may have originated from anywhere in the world,” DJ pointed out.
    “Let’s hope it came from within the cube,” said Caine.  “Otherwise, Titan Six may not be able