A unique look at future earth, space travel, and the adventures of colonizing a new planet. This is the story of the colonists and crew of the test colony transport ship-the UES Metis on planet 4824. The landing system had just sounded that the massive stabilizers had been extended and stabilization had been achieved. The crew gave a sigh of relief when the ship gave a great shudder and a bloodcurdling sound of metal being rendered apart. The communications went down, hatch locks were engaged, and fourteen survival pods were ejected. When Corik came to, the pod instruments were dead. He cranked the manual override and released himself. Looking around, he saw the ship in the distance. Many questions came to mind as he started jogging toward it. Things like why was he unconscious? Why was there smoke coming from the ship? Why was his escape pod ejected, and were there more pods ejected or was his the only one. Again why, was he ejected? His hike back to the Metis soon became a race for his life as a monstrosity of a creature charged after him. If he could make it to the ship and a hatch was open when he got there, he might just survive this race.