Project Oasis offers a fresh start: an opportunity to establish the first colony on Mars. Disenchanted with life on Earth, a young tech named Asha Reed joins the project, boards the CSV Frontier, and goes into cryogenic suspension to conserve resources on the long journey to her new home. Asha comes out of cryo in deep space, light-years off course. She and a handful of survivors have just drifted into the Protectorate, an alien sector of the galaxy...