What a 21st! Eva's big birthday 'present' was a tired old spaceship lost in space and time, a motley crew of amnesiac patients, 500 colonists in cryo, and a mission that would take a lifetime - assuming she could keep everyone alive till they made planetfall. SS Moraturi is a Lunar Earth Transfer Orbiter - a kind of spider robot designed to construct space stations and ships in and around the Earth-Moon Lagrange points 1 and 2. Now Moraturi is taking two cryoholds full of colonists to New Eden, an earth-like planet in the Paradisi system, 2.5 million light years from Earth in the Andromeda galaxy. Eva's problem is that the trip that was to take a month or so is now going to take decades — their emergency supplies were based on 40 days of travel for just 16 crew members with the 500 passengers in cryo — and the cryotechnology can't keep them alive for even a decade at a stretch. Now the success of the mission will be in the hands of a bunch of teenagers. As cryobeds fail, colonists wake with fragmented memories, and another wave of radiation hurls the ship into the unknown, Eva must confront an impossible challenge. With survival now dependent on three resourceful teenagers and dwindling supplies, the quick journey to New Eden becomes an epic odyssey of biblical proportions.
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