The inventor of the Faster-Than-Light Drive is missing, lost undertaking the first interstellar voyage. A terrorist attack leaves the Earth in a state of constant war. Amidst the global decline mankind begins emigrating to the stars. Special Forces soldier Aidan Carson is tired of fighting and his term of enlistment is ending. Brooklynn Vance, the niece of the FTL-drive's inventor, thinks she knows where her uncle might be. Her offer to join the search...