The Advance Team

The first squad to land on the surface of Kepler-942c after the Daedalus arrived. A mix of the security, engineering, bio and medical divisions, their task was to survey, sample, assess the landing site, and lay the ground for waking the 100,000 colonists.

They are humanity's eyes and hands on this planet—and the first to face, head-on, the things the data never told them.

Every report sent back from the surface to the ship carried, more than the last, a trace of unease no one could quite explain.