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training in 10th Group on the precursor to Psychic Warrior, in a program called Trojan Warrior, two years ago. How can something have been hidden that long? Or not come to someone's attention?"
    "I'm sure Trojan Warrior was legitimate. And the orders for Bright Gate were legitimate in that they came down the chain of command," Eichen said. "But where those started in the chain of command is another issue. This sort of thing has been going on a lot longer than two years.
    "Let me give you what little background we do know. Bright Gate was the brainchild of a scientist named Professor Souris. She worked at a facility called the High-Energy Research and Technology Facility. HERTF is located at Kirtland Air Force Base. That we did know about. It was built to test directed-energy weapons, particle beam technology, and radio and microwave frequency potentials for combat.
    "I've been there. The facility is located in a canyon in the Manzano Mountains. The walls were built four feet thick to contain the results of what they are working on. We budgeted eighty million dollars to build the place and quite a bit more to keep it running. And then we staffed it with the brightest minds we could find, Souris among them.
    "Apparently, as near as we can piece together now, Souris began doing some speculative work on her own. Trying to cross the boundary from the real into the virtual plane. That she succeeded we now know, given the events of the last couple of weeks and the existence of Bright Gate."
    "Then how did Bright Gate get established?" Dalton asked.
    In the dim light reflected through the windows, Eichen appeared old and worn. "Let me give you the big-picture background and you'll have to bear with me, Sergeant Major, as some of what I'm going to tell you is going to sound quite fantastic, but I assure you, it’s the truth. I had a hard time accepting it all when I was first approached to be part of Nexus, but as the years have gone by, I've learned more and more and my belief has grown to be absolute.
    "Nexus was founded by General Eisenhower when he was President. After a couple of years in office, Eisenhower realized that things were not as they appeared to be, that there were actions going on that he wasn't being briefed on.
    “And it appeared that key members of his administration, especially in the military and intelligence agencies, along with leading members of industry, were working with a different agenda. What that agenda was, he had no idea. He tried to make it as public as he could; I'm sure you know about his warning in his farewell speech to the country regarding the military-industrial complex, but it was much darker than that. And he was threatened."
    Dalton stirred uncomfortably. "The President threatened?"
    "Eisenhower took the threat quite seriously," Eichen said. "Kennedy didn't."
    There was a long period of silence as Eichen let the implications of that last sentence sink in. Dalton didn't know what to say or think, so he remained quiet until Eichen continued. "Eisenhower didn't roll over though. He formed a group to watch these people and to figure out what they were up to. The group was called Nexus. He kept it very small and limited to people he absolutely trusted. Over the years, that trust has been handed on to each successive member. It's more than forty years later and we've learned little."
    Eichen fell silent and Dalton waited.
    "What do we know?" It was as if Eichen were really asking himself that question. "We know that there is some sort of international group that manipulates governments, industry, religion, the media-hell, damn near every aspect of our life. Who they are, we don't know yet, although we do know they have been called the Priory. How many members, what their objectives are, where they're located; those are still all uncertain. They've always used other organizations as fronts for their work.
    "Using the work she developed at HERTF and our own government's secret infrastructure,