The warship Ross Salton makes an emergency jump from the battlefield. Due to damage to its jump drive, it arrives in an unknown star region. After battle damage, gravity system failure, and the violent turbulence of being forced out of jump space, more than six hundred days pass in silence. On the damaged starship, in an offline life-support pod, Luther Bartram awakens. Facing reality, an unknown planet, and an orbital drop, he begins a survival adventure with self-rescue as his only goal.
"If the Federation can't find me, I'll go find the Federation myself! If the Federation can't save me, I'll get myself out of here!"
