Asteria (Galactic Explorers, #1)

Traversing the black void, a lonely space cruiser searches for signs of life. The pilot's mission is to plot new routes and find new worlds to study, to advance humanity's interstellar progress. But all Ren's found is dead space and the only progress he's made is adding plasma vapor to the universal ephemera. Until he crashes on an unknown planet and discovers space isn't as dead as he thought.

Renner Tachibana has spent his entire life training for space exploration. He could have had any ...