"... but limps on crutches at home. "

Dr. Janus Bova; Hero of the former Soviet Union, and team leader of MaRGA - the TOP SECRET Russian telepresence mission to Mars - knew more about the FACE, the region surrounding it, and the decades-long, very Soviet, American BLACK BUDGET dis-information campaign to distract that country from both, than anyone on earth. She had spent enough time in the "room without end" to make her more comfortable there - wherever "there" was - than anywhere else on the planet.

From the inscrutable FACE to the pryamids and obelisks of Cydonia, she had scoured the Martian surface for those that had built on such a cyclopean scale. Her search had led her to the secrets hidden in the ancient caldera of the largest shield volcano in the solar system. Already the only woman, the only human, to glimpse the truth of the 4th planet, and its true connection to the 3rd, she prepared for the inner journey once again without any thought given to the possibilty that it might be her last.

A possibility more real than just minutes ago, and preparations that are interrupted by the unexpected ALERT beep that causes her to look at the incoming data from MSv4; orbiting high above the great american desert.

It would not be long before she, and the rest of the world, would realize what a truly amazing place America was about to become.