Pathfinder

The Federation of Independent Worlds returns to the planet Sestanus after many decades to restore the abandoned populace with its gift of citizenship. They dispatch one of their corporate contractors, Ascension Engineering and Mining Concern, to stabilize the planet and restore the economic might to this long-neglected sector.Esperian, pathfinder sergeant for the corporation's military arm, ASC, discovers not all is as it seems with hints to a secret agenda underlying the Fed's plan. He struggles to balance working with mysterious allies and protecting the men and women of his elite squad.Esperian finds further complications with the discovery of alien technology from multiple races not known to have previously visited the planet. He faces a collision of his past, present, and future, knowing it cannot be coincidence, and wonders what it will mean for everything happening on Sestanus.