"T'Lara collapsed to the ground, exhausted, clutching the crying infant to her chest. The waning light of the evening sun revealed her now gaunt figure. Her ribs were visible beneath her pale blue skin through a rip in her skinsuit. Storm clouds grew in the sky above and the wind blew heavily through the trees. Even though this world was foreign to her, she could still sense that it would soon begin to rain, and she had no supplies or place to take shelter." T'Lara is the sole survivor of a fated expedition to reach a distant star, our star, where her people expected to find a religious...