The TEMPLE OF TRAEH DERCAS — M. Lennon Perricone

On a cursory expedition through the Acliptes Wormhole, the Vlidican Coalition, one of two superpowers nearing armed conflict, discovered the enigmatic world Phendrom Solaxium, where a great but recently-extinct civilization flourished.Chosen for the more detailed return mission is Zase Fasoon, a young ambitious and ideological Anthro-archeologist.Zase, to his delight, is assigned to study a nearly intact structure whose function is a mystery. It's during his analysis and evaluation of that edifice that Zase is visited by an ethereal presence that warns him of sinister events.Zase soon suspects the mission to Phendrom Solaxium may have an ominous ulterior motive. It's then that covert forces move against him to discredit him and silence him forever, as the two superpowers ready for their inevitable conflict.