Faced with overwhelming odds, they'll have to fight to survive.. Astronaut. Repairman. Prisoner. CenturoCorp engineer Darrien Norris begins a journey across Terran Colonial space to restore a broken mining machine on a distant, mineral harvest world. It was supposed to be routine-a good run to finish his career-but his shuttle is thrown without warning from its course by an unseen power and survival becomes the only thing that matters. Catapulted across half the galaxy to a violent and hostile place, Norris has been left to survive or die inside an inescapable, alien horror merely for the crime of being lost-of being human. Escape is his purpose, but what he finds in the grinding, desperate fight to live will forever change the path of human history.