Fifty years back, Mira, humanity’s last desire to find new resources, exited the solar system bound for Proxima Centauri b. Seven years into her mission, all transmissions ceased without warning. Mira and her team were presumed dropped. Mankind, unified during her building, splintered into insurgency and rebellion.

Right now, an outpost orbiting Pluto offers detected a distress contact from an unpowered object getting into Sol space: Mira provides came back. When all efforts at communications fail, S&R Dark, a Sol Federation Marine Corps search and save vessel, is usually dispatched from Trident Train station to intercept, investigate, and tow the beleaguered Mira to Neptune.

As the marines plan the journey, uncertainty and conspiracy fomented by Trident Station’s governing AIs, begin to take their toll. Upon achieving Mira, they discover they’ve been sent on the mission which will almost certainly end in catastrophe.

The Derelict saga is a suspenseful mashup of hard armed service sci-fi, space opera, and mystery.

Some mysteries shouldn’t be solved.