A fractured world. A buried ship. Six young survivors chosen by something older than memory.
After Vega's collapse, Outpost 17 survives on failing machinery, dwindling rations, and the illusion of control. Deep beneath the colony, Cíara Vance and five others uncover something impossible: an ancient vessel hidden in the mines, still alive, still watching... and perhaps waiting for them.
As strange symbols awaken, gravity shifts, and a mysterious hum begins to echo through Cíara's thoughts, the six are drawn into a secret that could heal their dying world-or destroy what little remains of it.
But the greatest danger may not lie within the ship.
As Councilor Breandán Vance tightens his grip on the colony, Cíara must choose between obedience and discovery, between fear and the call of something reaching across time itself.
Outpost 17 is Book III of the Return to Vega sequence-a character-driven science fiction epic of first contact, buried memory, and the children who may inherit a broken future.