"Growing up in Deep Space can be difficult. When the revolutionary spaceship they're developing there - and on which you hope to earn a position - is having problems and may never fly, tensions can rise.Stumbling across a terrorist conspiracy to wipe out most of humanity? That puts the pressure up to a really unfair level.How are a fifteen-year-old, an eighteen-year-old, and a twenty-one-year-old going to sort all that out?From deep space, to the Moon, and to the endangered Earth, Ashley, his older brothers, and his friends, have a lot to do..."