"And you have no wrongdoings? You forget, Hunter, humans are capable of much more horrid atrocities than we are."
To Jeremy, his mind would clear and his senses would escape him. The moment his hand made contact with the sphere the physical world would escape. In his mind, his thoughts would fuse with those of a million others, all communicating and transferring data. If there were a mental image, it would be that of a large orb-like light with numerous lights orbiting around it.
"Who are you?"
"Why are you here?"
"What is your purpose."
"Outsider."
Curiosity, anger, happiness, pleasure, and pain course through the mind all at once. The emotions and the thoughts of many fused into one conscious, donating to its collective processing power. And Jeremy's mind is donating to thought. To Jeremy, the feeling of his emotions and his memories all flooding into the Mindshare. In return, the younger and even the elder of the minds flow data into his own mind. Visions of alien structures and unknown systems flood into view.
And just like that, it ends as Iruel pulls the man away from the artifact. In just a matter of seconds, the memories and emotions of millions of minds over the course of ten years had been experienced. "They do not hate you," Iruel says quietly, "They are nervous about humanity. Humanity has it in its own will to kill its fellows. We are unable to do that. We can not coexist by your will and your will alone."
"THE HULL HAS BEEN BREACHED AND THESCIENCEIS LEAKING OUT!"