20-year-old Veterinary Nurse/Trainee Medical Officer Eva Hughes is junior officer on SS Moraturi, transporting 500 colonists to New Eden. Eva’s responsibility is the domestic and farm animals they are bringing, but she is working towards qualifying as both a veterinary and a medical doctor. When you're 2.5 million lightyears from any other help, you can't afford people who only have single skill…After a gamma burst in the wormhole, Eva finds herself looking after colonists whose cryobeds failed, and who now show memory loss for specific things… After another wave of radiation, the ship slips out of the wormhole, somewhere, sometime… and Eva finds herself in charge of an impossible mission.