In any genuine pursuit of enlightenment, one of the leading prerequisites for success would have to be considered application, more often than not. Otherwise, the knowledge obtained might hold tangential value at best.From the moment his seven students first entered his survival education simulator, Donovan Marius fought tooth and nail to break them of their individualistic habits—in hopes that they would eventually appreciate the benefits of accomplishing tasks as a collective.While they had been brought many times to the brink of epic disaster, during their seemingly never-ending odyssey, his cadets continued to demonstrate that his messages were loudly and clearly received. Application, along with confidence, were two things this group did not lack.Millions of miles across the far-reaching star system, now revealed to them as Genara, a physical beacon beckons their eponymous spaceship, coming from what they believe to be one of their own.The Red Rover...

The mystery of the human condition lies not only in staying alive, but in finding something to live for. A throwaway statement to some, while to others like Delilah "Delly" Moore, it was a mantra. Blessed with an everlasting zeal to forge her own identity away from the friendly confines of her family, not to mention the Rover Base Alpha, Delly welcomed the changes in her life with aplomb. The Yellow Rover was not simply a way out. It was a way in—to the life she had always believed she was destined to live. Brought together through a union of necessity and curiosity, she along with the other seventeen members of her Rover team found themselves on route to the largest of the three systems discovered in search of a planet suitable to their community's colonization needs. The discovery of a moon base located within the orbit of their first terrestrial mission causes the Captain to split the unit against the wishes of several members of the...