Deep inside a basement laboratory at M.I.T., Doctor Josef Franks and his three brilliant protA(c)gA(c)es have done the impossible. They have broken down matter and transferred a small mouse from one cage to another, perfecting the aStar Treka project. Although they thought their work was done, the government had other ideas. The project was being funded by a little known agency deep inside the Pentagon called aBlack Secret.a Soon the doctor and his assistants would disappear in an apparent fiery death and find themselves at a secret complex in Groom Lake, Nevada. Their work there takes another turn when, after an earthquake in California, they try to transfer a squad of Army Rangers to a war game in North Carolina. The rangers are transferred, but to the year1863, where they find themselves in a life and death struggle trying to save President Abraham Lincoln from being kidnapped by Confederate troops.