Anthropologists, fortune hunters, scientists, gangsters, politicians and explorers found reason to congregate on the planet which possibly wasn't a planet. To stand on the artificial surface and wonder how many subcutaneous levels the planet contained, and what, if anything, was at the center. And to examine the artifacts on the reachable levels where the temperature approached Absolute Zero. Artifacts of a civilization far more advanced than any known
spacefaring species of the day. Artifacts of a people who possibly still lived at the center - thousands of miles and thousands of levels deeper than any known explorer had set foot.

General consensus was that Mike Rousseau, an archaeological scavenger might be the only man capable of reaching the center and unraveling the mystery of Asgard. Rousseau didn't quite agree, but unfortunately the choice was not his...