What if we had friends in very high places? What if we've always had them? Eons ago, starfaring Osirians genetically seeded a mammal on this planet. Later, they created great civilizations among the humans who evolved from it. One was Atlantis. Now, it is 1245 BCE. A third mission comes to monitor Atlantis. Unknown to the Osirians, the great island sank into the sea millennia before. Commanders Pirda and Sekhet must learn what happened. They find clues in the writings of a High Priestess at a now abandoned Atlantean outpost in Egypt. The writings were hidden thousands of years before in an entry-less chamber under a huge carved lion with the head of a man. Three massive pyramids also lie on this lonely plateau, strangely in the exact configuration of Osirian home stars. To learn the fate of the Atlanteans, the commanders must untangle the chamber writings and a tantalizing web of myths and temple symbols. This is the story of their extraordinary mission to the spectacular Egypt of Rameses II - How it came to be critical to our own near future, and the high price paid by Pirda and Sekhet, to whom it fell to safeguard the welfare of a star-descended people light years from their home and thousands of years later than their time.