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When a young physicist comes up with an efficient star drive capable of reaching the core of the galaxy, retired star pilot Priscilla "Hutch" Hutchins embarks on a perilous mission into the far reaches of outer space to uncover the origins of the deadly Omega clouds.
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By 2255, the age of starflight is over. The Academy of Science and Technology has collapsed, and the only efforts at space exploration are carried on by privately funded foundations.Then a young physicist named Jon Silvestri comes forward, insisting that an abandoned prototype for a much more efficient star drive is workable. Priscilla "Hutch" Hutchins, now a fundraiser for the Prometheus Foundation, persuades the group to back him - and he is proven right. The new drive works. The Cauldron - the very core of the galaxy - is now only three months away.At long last, the mystery of the deadly omega clouds that have devastated the galaxy for centuries can be penetrated. Soon, a handful of brave men and women begin a journey fraught with danger, into the heart of the Cauldron where the truth about the clouds can be found.And Priscilla Hutchins is one of them...
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