Alex Sorenson has finally realized his lifelong dream - to become a scoutship Pilot. The best of the best, pushing the edges of Human claimed space. Seeing things no one else has seen. Scanning so many celestial objects. The expedition he was assigned to was not what he was hoping for, his engineer a secretive, often abrasive alien. The mission? To find them habitable worlds after the near total destruction of their homeworld. No pressure.