In the future, clouds of microscopic probes are launched at near-light-speed from Earth to nearby star systems. After transmitting their findings back to Earth, a starship ferries thousands of colonists to a new world. But the manned expedition finds something very different from what the probes promised. Now, while struggling to fit in with a crew of scientists, ship's clerk Ryder Kask works to uncover the growing mysteries surrounding their mission.

The novel starts as Imperial troops land on the Chatham Islands a small settlement 680km southeast of the New Zealand mainland it signals the start of a new world war with the United American Empire against the United Nations. Leading to the takeover of the small outpost, the UAE had annexed Central and South America all in the name of securing the Empire against immigration, drugs and native population violence. With nowhere else to go it was a choice between crossing the South Atlantic into Africa or west across the Pacific into New Zealand. With UNDF forces left in Africa after the combined Imperial and UN War of the Warlords it was a harder nut to crack. So it was a matter of time when the cold war between the two forces started. The story focuses on soldiers on both sides as the UNDF lands in the top of the South Island and the UAE forces land in the bottom of the South.

Rohn has spent the last decade of his life doing his job, but wishing for something more. When circumstances finally push him past the naysayers and his own set doubts, he finds himself outside of his comfort zone and risking his life in an attempt to achieve his dream of exploring the cosmos. Along the way he'll learn the difference between living and being alive, the hallmarks of a true friend, and how to achieve dreams, even when they seem impossible.

BOOK 1 // Human Error (COMPLETE) BOOK 2 // Human Instinct (IN PROGRESS) *NOW OPTIONED FOR A TV SHOW* "Be not afraid of greatness. Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and others have greatness engineered right into their DNA." - William Shakespeare, 1602 (adapted for BioPlus) Astrid Oxford is not normal. Two hundred years into the future, society is recovering from global collapse, and genetic modification has saved the remaining population from a hunger crisis. The alteration of human DNA has been illegal since the technology was developed, but in the heart of New London, a sinister trend has emerged among society's elite. Designer children have been the city's best-kept secret for years, but strange side effects are now appearing as they hit adolescence. When a freak suicide forces modification into the public eye, eighteen-year-old Astrid is about to learn how difficult it is to stay under the radar when you really were born to stand out.