Empire Falls Fast

Empire Falls Fast

A disenchanted cop Jeff McNally from the woo-woo capital of the world named Empire Falls decides to join President Strunk’s Exploratory Force bound for Mars. After landing near the equator there, he leads an expedition north to ascertain whether there is life on the Red Planet, and not far from its artic Mare Acidalium, the diverse expedition discovers a ceremonial center founded by medieval Quechua natives from South America, but they are far from welcoming. Fleeing east, the expedition learns from a friendly Quechua outpost close by that far to the southeast exists a legendary underground civilization formed by a joinder of other Quechua pioneers with refugees from a distant galaxy named PSpS. Eventually, Jeff’s expedition makes its way down into the vast subterranean cavern called PSpS Plus and finds that the heterogenous civilization there has harnessed technology to solve life’s material and socio-political problems. But danger lurks when President Strunk plans a colonizing invasion of PSpS Plus to reap its rare-earth minerals, and Jeff’s friends NIkki and Milt from Empire Falls infiltrate the invasion and alert Jeff. In the end, a cataclysmic struggle for the soul of humankind and the future of the universe results.