Fire With Fire

2105, September: Intelligence Analyst Caine Riordan uncovers a conspiracy onEarths Moon a history-changing clandestine project andends up involuntarily cryocelled for his troubles. Twelve years later, Riordanawakens to a changed world. Humanity has achieved faster-than-light travel andis pioneering nearby star systems. And now, Riordan is compelled to become aninadvertent agent of conspiracy himself. Riordans mission: travel to anewly settled world and investigate whether a primitive local species was oncesentient enough so to have built a lost civilization. However, arrivingon site in the Delta Pavonis system, Caine discovers that the job hesbeen given is anything but secret or safe. Discovering new dangers atevery turn, Riordan must now convince the powers-that-be that the only way forhumanity to survive as a free species is to face the perils directly andto fight fire with fire.