The greatest adventure in human history is about to begin! Meet the extraordinary men and women who are leaving Earth and everything they know and love to find their destiny among the stars.

Nathan - They tore away the woman he loved -- and gave him a world to defend.

Shane - No alien enemy could match the horror she had witnessed as a child during the A.I. wars.

Cooper - The "tank" -- they said he wasn't human, until he turned rage into glory in the Space Marines.

Vanessa - She reached up from the ghetto to grab at the stars -- and got them!

Tomorrow is here. The whole universe is only the beginning....

The young "Wild Cards" of the 59th squadron have just received the toughest assignment of their careers -- torp in under the enemy shields on the icy planet called "Bulldog's Belly," demolish the supply lines of the alien "Chigs," and shoot their way out in stolen tankers. Piece of cake. Except for the Silicate double agent, the renegade deserters, and the beautiful fighter pilot who teaches Nathan about love ....