Minerva Chronicles

Markus Crowe-Valdez arrives as a prisoner in a commercially owned gulag on a far away world, wherehe witnessed firsthand the harsh conditions of exoplanet colonization . After discovering a dark secretabout the colony, he is caught in the middle of a brutal rivalry between terraforming moguls. To savehimself and his fellow prisoners, he must lead them in a rebellion against overwhelming odds and gainfavor of a sophisticated alien race who eyes humankind with caution and suspicion.