Howard Whitman has spent his entire life cloistered in the upper floors of his family estate yearning for a life of adventure in a distant place called the Journey Sector, the last bastion of unexplored space in the Confederacy.

A prisoner in his home, he risks his life to climb the mountain looming outside his window and has a life altering encounter with a falling star that changes everything for him. Follow Howard as he embarks on the adventure of a lifetime, making new friends, finding purpose, and trying to do the right thing in the face of an indifferent universe.