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.