“Admiral Curtiss tried to process the incredible scene. The landscape would have been beautiful if not for the four huge funnels of black smoke and the thousands of vultures he saw swirling through the sky. He looked closer. On the open hillsides were hundreds of dead bodies. What was happening here? Sky burials. Tibetans didn’t bury their dead, they laid them out on the ground, prayed, and sang mantras while the vultures came and devoured the remains. But how many people must have died to bring so many of them?” (Art by Amara Checchio)
"Jack stared in sheer amazement at the great cathedral of light. But he still felt uneasy. Taken all together, the symbolism of the place could not have been clearer: the three pillars of science inside a military womb." (Art by Josh Newton)
"Jack felt small and insignificant as they approached the huge hangar. In the growing darkness, the colossal structure reminded him of something out of a science-fiction movie, a monochromatic plated beast, one of the great sandworms of Dune." (Art by Josh Newton)
"The wreckage was like nothing Admiral Curtiss had ever seen—at least fifteen mangled cars and trucks filled with dead and injured." (Art by Josh Newton)
