Fire With Fire

2105, September: Intelligence Analyst Caine Riordan uncovers a conspiracy on Earths Moon a history-changing clandestine project and ends up involuntarily cryocelled for his troubles. Twelve years later, Riordan awakens to a changed world. Humanity has achieved faster-than-light travel and is pioneering nearby star systems. And now, Riordan is compelled to become an inadvertent agent of conspiracy himself. Riordans mission: travel to a newly settled world and investigate whether a primitive local species was once sentient enough so to have built a lost civilization. However, arriving on site in the Delta Pavonis system, Caine discovers that the job hes been given is anything but secret or safe. Discovering new dangers at every turn, Riordan must now convince the powers-that-be that the only way for humanity to survive as a free species is to face the perils directly and to fight fire with fire.