Artifice

<p><strong><em>In the near future... </em></strong></p><p><strong><em> </em></strong></p><p><strong><em>-A meteorite rumored to carry extraterrestrial life is stolen and disappears.</em></strong></p><p><strong><em>-Moon mission astronauts report fatal encounters with bizarre creatures. Their claims are dismissed.</em></strong></p><p><strong><em>-Alien rumors are ridiculed and refuted until - a spaceship crashes in Washington D.C.</em></strong></p><p><br></p><p>A live broadcast at the crash site shows the deceased pilot is an unidentifiable creature. The footage goes viral and plunges Earth into a frenzy of misinformation and unrealizable expectations. Afraid of a panic the government keeps the public unaware of the true nature of the extraterrestrial lifeform: a microscopic organism that transforms its hosts into fatally infectious nearly indestructible savage beasts. Only a secretive few know the pilot of the crashed craft was originally human.</p><p>The U.S. Government publicizes a multinational peace expedition to the home world of the fictitious intelligent aliens. But it's an elaborate charade to hide the real mission. In secret a strike team has been dispatched to eliminate what they believe is a sinister threat. In the anonymity of space a mysterious cabal is suspected of perverse extraterrestrial experiments deadly abominations and weapons against humanity. What the clandestine strike team discovers is nothing they could've prepared for.</p><p>The team will have to survive an unholy death trap to stop an agenda for mankind's future as dark and cold as the depths of space.</p>