A light-hearted research fiction book about first get in touch with, exploration, and desperately trying never to screw up from an up-and-coming sci-fi author. On humanity’s first extra-solar mission, the exploration vessel Magellan, or as she prefers ‘Maggie,’ discovers an alien artifact. Choosing that obtaining advanced alien life is too vital that you ignore, Captain Allison Ridgeway chooses to return to Globe while ordering her crew to reverse engineer technology considerably beyond anything back home. Meanwhile, at mission control, the government authorities struggle to keep up with the lifetime of aliens a key while also combating bureaucracy, the military industrial complex, and everyone else who wants a piece of the science that could skyrocket humanity into a fresh technological golden age. Little will everyone involved understand that the bumbling of the few highly developed apes in space hasn’t gone unnoticed and the people of Earth have place themselves on the collision course using a significantly wider, and possibly hostile, galaxy.