Breaking Orbit

Hugh Saracen is a scientist whose perfect life on Mars is suddenly turned upside down.Ann Bell left a promising career to care for her ailing mother.Meanwhile, Captain DB Zhong is facing a tight departure deadline and is down two crew members.The Phoenix is the BPOE's latest explorer/patrol ship. Newly-minted captain Dalton Simmons is facing his own pressures to launch his experimental ship and prove that his design is the future for the Benevolent and Protective Order of Explorers, mappers and guardians of the Solar System's space lanes.Accident, circumstance, and a little luck (you decide which kind), see two crews breaking orbit for the far flung depths of our Solar System, hundred of years in the future.Join Hugh, Ann, Captains Zhong and Simmons, and their crews as they begin their work to leave everything behind.