Plot Summary C

Even though a flight to Mars is now considered normal procedure for the average public, the one-eyed techy, in the midst of his episode, is too afraid to risk going to Mars by himself to find the diamonds. The doctor and the son have become the target of his schizophrenic need to have an answer for his lost vision. Instead of going himself, and knowing from meeting the son several times in the Banff Vision Enhancement Centre, that Malcon the tenth is an astro-geologist, he forces the doctor, his wife and the doctor’s son, Everet Malcon the tenth to journey to the fledgling Mars colony, (Colony #1), with him to mine for a precious find for him –one facet of an immensely clear Mars diamond from Olympus Mons. He needs the doctor then, to perform the implementation of the clear diamond facet in his left eye-socket. He needs the doctor’s wife along to assist in the procedure.

When finally on mars, in an unexplored, as yet unclaimed land sector of the red planet, in the base of the crater of Olympus Mons, Everett discovers a rich deposit of the super diamonds. The clearest, most brilliant diamonds ever found on any planet man has set foot on in the past millennium. The diamonds average size is 1380 karats. The biggest diamond ever found on earth to this date was 138 karats. Some of the bigger diamonds that Everet finds are around 2500 karats in weight. On Earth, there are no young diamonds, most are more than a billion years old. So too on Mars. The name diamond originates from the Greek word *adamas* which loosely translated means very strong or difficult to conquer. Diamonds are gems and can be found in two types of rock, kimberlite and lamproite. Both kimberlite and lamporite are created from volcanic eruptions from deep in the earth.