In the not so distant future,  space exploration has been taken over by business, not governments.  With this kind of 
funding,  great leaps in advancement got man to Mars in just a few years.  In the decades that followed,  many of the
craft sent to Mars were combined in orbit to become mans first orbiting space station of another world.  One
of the rich contributors to these projects was Lara Croft.  From the station, studying and visiting Mars went on for 
several years, and then suddenly all contact with the astronauts at the station was lost.   The last transmission
mentioned the word alien,  but it was an incomplete message.  Lara with her resources funded the next trip to
the station, to see what they meant by alien......