Staircase to the Stars

This is a world where space has become part of our life—a world where we didn’t abandon the great past and made it our future. In 2099, forty years after the Exodus from Earth, during tests at the scientific research station "Hawking’s Limit," an incident occurs. With victory within reach, all the scientific potential of the New Union stumbled—and now it is on the brink of destruction. An old operative, Colonel Mikhail Zorin, must do what he hasn’t done in a very long time: find out who is responsible and recover the stolen secrets. But besides that, he’ll find the answer to the most important question: what are people capable of in order to obtain the long-awaited ladder to the stars…