Unity Captives

by

R. W. Van Sant

 

A New Adult Dystopian Science Fiction Adventure.

 

 

 

When humanity escaped to the stars,

greed and tyranny eagerly pursued.

 

 

From behind the faceplate of his spacesuit, Tod Riley dreams of exploring other planets while building his world's first space station. With a salvaged travel pod, he flies between the ice and rock of the planet rings, but his dreams turn to nightmares when the Unity starship Grissom arrives in the system, bringing the tyrannical authority of the Unity with them. 

 

 

It's not long before violence erupts on the station. The ruling council compels the warship to leave the system, but it does not leave alone. Several colonists are shanghaied, pressed into fleet service on the ship; forced into a nightmarish never-ending war, of injury and degradation as the ship takes them further from the home they may never see again.

 

 

Treated as criminals and kept as slaves, only the dream of eventual release and freedom keep them going. A dream that fades as his fellow colonists start dying off, one by one.  Rumors spread that the captain is committing acts of piracy and Tod realizes that if he is ever going to see his loved ones again, he must escape the warship and somehow find his way across the light years of empty space that separates him from home.