Cade works to expose a U.S. Senator who is thwarting government funded space exploration. – – –

Quatrain 42, Century 5: “”When the sun bursts forth at night / The life of a starwatcher is lost / But the truth revealed in the heavens / Is carried to a high magistrate””.

Eddie’s friend Vincente Miranda, an astronomer in Ohio, was shot to death shortly after witnessing a meteor burst out of a wormhole just outside our atmosphere. He instantly understood the implications of what this could mean. While he explained his findings to Eddie over the phone, he put the critical photographs and charts in a package to be over-nighted to U.S. Senator Sterling Preston. Lucky for us it wasn’t clearly labeled. The Gua who rubbed him out destroyed everything having to do with the discovery, but he didn’t think to go through the outgoing mail. The package was sent, delivered and signed for. Of all the places I wanted to go hunt down evidence, the nation’s capital was at the bottom of my list. Only the t