Greylorn

In a desperate future Earth, the Red Tide is devouring the planet, and Lieutenant Commander Greylorn makes a daring case before the World Secretary's council: humanity's last hope may lie not in a doomed defense, but in a search for the lost Omega Colony. Thanks to new propulsion advances, a mission once thought impossible could now reach the colony in five years, and Greylorn argues that the distant settlement may have grown strong enough to aid its parent world. The council approves the gamble, and the Galahad is built as Earth's final bid for survival. But the voyage is anything but secure. Onboard, Captain Greylorn faces rising dissent as Medical Officer Kramer and other officers question the mission's cost and the crew's future. He quashes a challenge in his cabin, then fights to hold the ship together through sabotage, fear, and a devastating meteor strike that breaches the hull, kills crewmen, and destroys precious fresh food stores. Hunger and despair push the crew toward mutiny, until a mysterious object appears on the bridge scope: a vast rotating alien structure. As the crew struggles to communicate, Mannion deciphers an enigmatic message, and Greylorn answers with fearless defiance, turning a mission of survival into a perilous first contact beyond the stars. This edition has been fully restored with modern typesetting, custom cover design.