A man, Jacob Hulman, Ensign on the cruiser UEC- Aries, is deployed along with the rest of his crew, to recover a distress beacon four-billion kilometers past Pluto. When they encounter something that sends the cruiser into red alert, the crew witnesses something that has not been documented in any known record from the Unitary States of Earth. As the ship gets ripped to shreds, the Ensign, along with four marines and an engineering officer, escape via a life pod. They travel for days before hitting the atmosphere of an unknown planet, where everything is out to get them.

Aa'ro 'Mvoree has his previous squad stripped from him in the heat of battle, and now he has to fight in the war, not only with the humans, but against those around him.

Inspired by the movie Enemy Mind. Elizabeth Jackals was born and raised on planet earth by her two ex-military parents. Suaded by under the expectations of her parents she joins the air force. There she simply does her job contemplating everything in her life but never finding any answers. Then the Pilar of Horizon is attacked by the Covenant forces leaving her no choice but to flee onto the nearest habitable planet chased by the enemy. There she crashes and faces the perils of this untamed planet along with the enemy. Until a severe blizzard gives her the chance to create a peace amoung her and the alien threat. Elizabeth finally finds that all her answers lay with in the enemy mind. WARNING THIS STORY MOVES A BIT SLOW AT FIRST!