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Jeff Mundy dreamed, studied and worked all his life in preparation for this moment. His mentor, Professor Albert Lear, president and co-founder of Chamberlain University and The Bunnell Radio Observatory, hadinvested his life, his career and his personal fortunein the search for extraterrestrial intelligence. First Contact! The world-shattering implications hadalways fascinated Lear, but time and age were catching up. The past still haunted him and the future made no promises. Soon it would be left in the hands of those who would carry on his legacy. Until that fateful night when everything changed. Jeff Mundy's SETI project detected an unidentified transmission directed toward the earth from the outskirts of the solar system. This was, it seemed, the moment they all dreamed of. But when someone or something on Earth sent back a reply, no one could have imagined that an amazing gift was about to transform all of mankind forever.