Story So Far!

While on a mission to test an experimental hyperdrive engine, the crew of the Galaxion find themselves at what appears to be an alternate-history version of the Earth they know. A team is sent down to the planet to investigate the wreckage of the Hiawatha, a ship lost and presumed destroyed a decade ago, and to discover what happened to its crew. 

They find a few survivors living among a tribe of people called the Orehu. They also hear outlandish tales about the Miesti, alien invaders who can control their victims and take them as slaves—including, apparently, the missing members of the Hiawatha’s crew.

Just before Aria Schafer can meet up with the rest of the Survey Contact Team, she is taken away by the Rautani, the people who (according to the Orehu) serve the Miesti. She wakes up disoriented and a bit sick, and is met by men whom she knows don’t speak her language, and yet somehow she can understand them anyway. They escort her to some sort of large room where she finally encounters the Miesti, who don’t look anything like she expected…