Rigel, Kline, and Eta have penetrated the Luna 2 citadel. Now is their chance to restore some measure of balance to a stagnant, truculent society.
Moonfall! Kline leads his army across the surface of Luna 2. Separated from his allies, can he find Goliath Shaw in time to stop the slaughter?
The Borzya team returns to the Moon, assembling in the Sea of Tranquility. Little do they know that the Foci has set into motion a sinister plot that threatens all of civilization.
The Purlieu is a harsh caricature of humankind--an entity pushed so far to its limits that only evil, intolerance, ruthlessness, and fear survives. Even so, as Rigel accelerates into the Purlieu, he can't help but feel at home.
With Kline's conscience in turmoil, his hope of turning thousands of prisoner-slaves into freedom fighters is even less likely than his hope of surviving the thorium sands at all.
Rigel and Bella awaken from cryosleep to find their link to Borzya severed. They thought they were alone on board, but muffled cries for help float through the halls of Megara.
3, 2, 1...launch! The Borzya team sets out for Mars. But will the world they hope to save ever be the same?
Rigel prepares to pilot Megara away from Saturn. Yet something ominous looms over him as he prepares to set out into space once more--not in the direction of the stars, but toward the Moon.
The scheming of Maksim Antakov comes to light. Among other things, his plan hinges upon the charisma of Franklin Kline. But Franklin struggles to trust in himself or in any plot relying on his influence.
Behind the refuge door, bloody terror saturates the room. A whirlwind of deceit swirls through Tempest. Saturn looms over the seemingly insignificant craft--so near, yet so far away.
In the humid back room of The Rusty Russian, all eyes fall on a GTN special report. It is the first comprehensive report of the state of astral affairs since the Precept purge. What role did Eta Porter play, and where is she now?
The mood in the refuge pod is excruciatingly dire. The unthinkable has happened. Who's to blame? There's no time for inquiry--there's work to be done if there's any hope of saving the rest of the Tempest 9.
Eta has delivered Kline from danger again. But the sleepy town of Borzya has awakened a bustling quagmire. At the center of the bedlam is The Rusty Russian--the very place she hoped to find respite.
Mere weeks from Saturn, Tempest will certainly miss the mark without a successful trajectory burn. However, a safe burn requires a diagnosis of Tempest’s fuel system woes. It's now or never for Raleigh’s spacewalk—-it's up to her to fix the problem.
Eta has saved Kline from assassination in Parliament, but the Precept purge has only just begun. The longer she remains in Beijing, the less likely she is to survive. If Eta can stow away on a t-train and locate an old ally, she might be able to do just that.
After discovering a malfunction in Tempest's fuel system, the Tempest 9 plan a repair EVA. Raleigh Toon once headed up the construction of Luna 2, but today, she is the leading option to go out into space and fix the problem.
Kline clings onto consciousness, battling delirium. The events of the day escape him as he wanders his own memory, exploring the chain of events that carried him to this moment.
Titan Tempest's lifeline to Earth is severed. The Tempest 9 are wracked by uncertainty and mistrust. Has the chaos remained turfside, or is Tempest caught in the storm?
The pandemonium is cut by a single, piercing bang. Franklin Kline thuds to the floor. Eta Porter is the only Senator close enough to save Kline's life, but she conceals ambitions of her own.
Rigel Porter, Titan Tempest astronaut, cuts through space over a billion kilometers from Earth. He has made the 1.2 billion km trek to Saturn's largest moon twice--this time, he may not be coming home.
"Space is the cure to careless savagery, to stagnant two-party politics, to the fear that condemns visionary science to the dusty shelves of oblivion." So says Franklin Kline on the day he is meant to die.