Time to Orbit: Unknown

Aspen Greaves was expecting to wake up from chronostasis in orbit around their new planet, to be checked over by medical staff on a crowded ship, and to be sent straight down to their new, permanent home. They were not expecting to wake up alone on a damaged ship in the dark, five years away from their destination, with only the universe's least helpful AI to advise them on what went wrong and how to fix it. But with almost five thousand sleeping colonists in their care and the crew mysteriously dead, Aspen needs to figure out what went wrong and how to actually make it to Hylara. If only they knew anything at all about being an astronaut.

It hasn't been easy, but under the careful hand of its makeshift crew, the starship Courageous limps towards its destination. With every passing day, the promise of ground under their feet and a new, safe home looms closer. But Aspen and the crew have only begun to untangle the knotted web of conspiracies and experiments that doomed their predecessors, and what awaits them at their destination is something that nobody expects. You can run pretty far, in space. But sometimes, what you're running from is a whole lot less important than what you're inadvertently running to.