With Earth's natural resources critically low, scientists use a new technology to create a wormhole to a recently discovered world. Seventeen-year-old Fanar joins his father and many others on Niton to establish a colony and regularly send much-needed water and other resources back to Earth. Soon after their arrival, equipment is found sabotaged, Fanar's father goes missing, and - people get sick and die. What was thought to be a virgin world...