SEQUEL TO SURVIVORS After the failed peace meeting, Rowan struggles with his new leadership and accepting change. His newfound confusion, fear, sadness, and anger is pressed onto the rest of his team as he fights to maintain healthy relationships with them. To top it off, he has to find a new Red Cadet, and locate Wessa. The worst part for him is that he doesn't know if he can do it.

Rowan witnesses the apocalypse. Not the end of the universe, just the end of his planet. Very rare to survive it, apparently, seeing how he is one of three survivors. Jade and Xavier are two other survivors, and none of them really stick together automatically because they're humans in an unfamiliar situation. The situation isn't the biggest part. The biggest part is that the planet was deliberately destroyed. Rowan must track down the destroyer of his world, protect the universe, and run from pirates that want something nobody knows how to get.