Awakening

Earth is dead, her inhabitants and their descendants spread throughout the galaxy.On the far edge of civilization, millions of miles from help, a penal mining colony sits nearly forgotten, inhabitants of a cold, dark world that is valued for only one thing: the ore that it produces.A pirate captain plans a lucrative heist. A Fleet Navy Captain makes a decision born of love and desperation. And a young Fleet Marine Lieutenant fights against a corrupt prison warden.But amidst these conflicting interests and opportunist schemes, something far more sinister has awakened on the planet's surface. An evil that has taken human lives before, and has the power to make the dead rise and feast upon the living.At the very limit of the galaxy, something deadly has awakened, and threatens the continued existence of mankind itself.