Approximately one million B.C an

automated factory ship from an

alien civilization passes too near a

~tar unexpectedly gone !~ova. Suf-

tc, ring extensive damage t3 its elec-

tronic circuit~ it continbes blindly

for millennia before finally crashing

into the snows of an Jncharted

world...

In the second decacle of the

twenty-first century;, a probe from

Earth orbits Saturn s moon Titan

and launches a lander. Unfortu-

nately, the lander malfunctions be-

fore transmitting picture~ from the

surface-at least that is the official

story. A colony ship supposedly

destined for Mars is surreptitiously

rerouted to Titan...and only the

leaders of the Military Industrial

Complex know why.

Aboard the interplanetary trans-

port-in addition to the usual mix

of flight crews and scie,~tists-are

parapsychology researchers, lin-

guists, psychologists, representa-

tives of indust~ an ambassador

.2and elite military units from sev-

eral Western nations. Clearly some-

thing is up.

But no one is talking!