Approximately one million B.C, an automated factory ship from an alien civilization passes too nearta star unexpectedly gone nova. Suffering extensive damage to its electronic circuitry: it continues blindly .or millennia before finally crashing into the snows of an uncharted world...
In the second decade of tie twenty-first century, a probe from Earth orbits Saturn's moon Titan and launches a lander. Unfortunately the lander malfunctions before transmitting pictures from the surface - at least that is the official story. A colony ship supposedly destined for Mam is surreptitiously rerouted to Titan ...and only he leaders of the Military Industrial Complex know why.
Aboard the interplanetary transport - in addition on the usual mix of flight crews and scientists - are parapsychology representatives of industry, an ambassador ... and elite military units from several Western nations. Clearly something is up.
But no one is talking!