Voyage Into the Unknown

It is the 41st century.

Falling prey to unimagined solar processes, the Sun has exploded and destroyed the Earth. Thousands of survivors move outward into space aboard the Space Star Silver Streak on a last-ditch mission to save the human race by establishing colonies on extrasolar planets.

Now, in the thirteenth year of their odyssey, the ship is almost emptied, the voyage almost at an end--when the most recently established colony signals distress. Something huge, ominous, mysterious, and i...