Solomon has passed judgement. The AI has chosen his ideal humans for Project Nomad, mankind's first extrasolar colony on Opis, forty light years from an Earth ravaged by more than a century of disease, famine, and war. Now his band of soldiers, farmers, and scientists have one final chance to launch the Ainatio corporation's ageing interstellar ship, Shackleton, and join the crew of Cabot at Nomad Base. They...