Original War

Under a UN mandate, an American geological expedition surveys natural resources in a remote region of Siberia, deep in the trackless steppes of Eastern Russia. Instead of oil, they uncover a deposit of a previously unknown mineral. American scientists working for the Department of Defense determine...

The story centers on Siberite, an extraterrestrial mineral that can catalyze cold fusion and power an alien artifact. During World War I, a U.S. expedition to Russia discovers both Siberite and the artifact—EON. EON is revealed to be a time machine capable of sending objects into the past, but Siberite supplies run out and research is abandoned. In the new millennium, massive Siberite deposits ar...