VIDEO GAME RECRUITING: Humanity was depressed. After all the last two generations had grown up realizing that Science Fiction and the Scientists had lied. The huge leaps forward that would take mankind out to the stars? Never happened. First contact had crushed humanity as the more advanced aliens explained that the future was just as bad as the past. The only good thing? Intergalactic war was not possible. Then an unknown alien race had dropped asteroids on Earth and tried to invade with killer robots. They had failed. Humanity had stopped really looking up other than in fear. Something had...

Science fiction and the scientists lied to us. There was no golden age of discovery. No FTL or Galactic Federations. At first contact we found out how wrong we had been about the future. Then, aliens invaded Earth and crushed our reborn hope. Sam Slate, now known as call sign Eight, is trying to fit in with the new section. He'd travelled through space to finally arrive at a small ship that carries a Marine section around the edges of human-occupied space, travelling from outpost to base to satellite making sure everything is the way it is supposed to be. No matter how hard he tries, Eight...