Released on = December 10, 2005, 3:04 pm

Press Release Author = Kerry Plowright

Industry = Entertainment

Press Release Summary = A hidden subterranean lake buried beneath 12,000 feet of ice
triggers Armageddon. Nations collide in the confusion and the greatest meeting of
military powers the planet has ever witnessed. Is it too late? We are at three days
to zero.

Press Release Body = Vostok Station, the coldest recorded place on earth, a Russian
research facility deep in the Antarctic interior that sits on a dome of ice over
12,000 feet deep. A place unique not just because of record cold temperatures but
because of what lies beneath the ice, Lake Vostok, a fluid mass larger than Lake
Ontario, nearly 2000 feet deep. Renegade Russian and Chinese scientists drill
through the ice into the lake, discovering a secret that has been trapped there for
millions of years.
Compressed by trillions of tons of ice, the lake water is saturated in oxygen
and explosive natural gasses. When exposed to low atmospheres, the water
instantly boils into gas. Beneath that mix, the earths crust, stretched by the
huge mass of lake and ice, has laid bare the world\'s largest oil and gas
reserve, held in check only by the weight above.
The discovery begins a chain of events that spiral into the biggest massing of
military forces seen since the Second World War. And then the unthinkable
happens. A blinding flash of light and an enormous electro magnetic pulse rips
out from the northeast end of the lake, sealing off Vostok from the rest of
the world.
The Russians and Chinese blame the U.S. This creates the stage for a military
confrontation to claim the ice. Amidst this, two brothers, Brian and Lance
Hamilton find themselves dragged into the unfolding nightmare.
Colonel Brian Hamilton caught in the electro magnetic pulse, then witnesses the
annihilation of the Vostok research station from a cruise missile strike and
the ignition of the wellhead that begins a count down to dooms day. His escape
from the ice centre and pursuing Spetznaz forces enables him to warn the
coalition of the approaching Armageddon.
With the entire Antarctic sealed off to the Australian and US forces, it is up
to Squadron Leader Lance Hamilton to devise a strategy that will get him and
his Pig, the venerable F111, close enough to extinguish the flame. The burning
well head quickly creates a hole over four hundred meters wide which rapidly
sinks towards the lake of oil and gas below.
\"Within 72 hours, the ice will blow out and the lake will explode. Within minutes,
the entire ice dome, over a thousand square kilometres of ice, 5000 feet thick, will
collapse, throwing the contents of the lake tens of thousands of meters in the air.
This is an extinction event. We will all either burn, suffocate, be killed by the
resulting shockwave or drown in the biggest tsunami the earth has experienced since
the last big meteor wiped out the dinosaurs. We have 72 hours to put the flame out
or we are all very dead!\" Dr. Alexander Blake, RosenBridge Foundation.
In a growing conflict that debuts weaponry never utilized in battle before, the
Russians, Chinese, Australian and US forces, punch it out on the ice and
Southern Ocean, each believing they are fighting the just cause. But for all of
them, the ticking bomb at the end of the Earth threatens the extinction of all
life. Brian and Lance Hamilton find themselves flung together in a desperate
last minute attempt to avert a catastrophe of biblical proportions.


Web Site = http://www.vostokstation.com.au

Contact Details = Kerry Plowright
31 Highland Drive
Terranora NSW 2486
kerry@waspz.om
61 7 55904173
0403147197