CRITICAL MILLENNIUM (2010)

"(W) Andrew E.C. Gaska (A) Daniel Dussault One thousand years of mankind's rise and fall in space! A bold group of explorers takes the first steps toward leaving Earth's solar system. Their quest: new worlds to colonize, so that humanity may yet have a chance at survival. The team is scorned by the world's government and canonized by its citizens. And even getting off the ground, they soon realize, may be the most difficult task ahead. At mission's end, their ship on the verge of collapse, its captain maddened by the depths of space, Captain Coney encounters a strange energy field on the edge of the universe, and the creature within."

"(W) Andrew E. C. Gaska (A) Daniel Dussault Thomm Coney and Eryc Kartoneas witness the first test launch of the experimental engine that will propel them to their destiny; the Blackstar drive utilizes miniature black holes to catapult vessels to other worlds. While the entrepreneurs are off-world, natural calamity strikes New Bombay! In the devastated slums of the Ghost Quarter, the man called the Wraith rises to power, plotting the death of those who would dare take mankind to the stars!"

"(W) Andrew E.C. Gaska (A) Daniel Dussault Coney, Eryc, Pandita, and Angel Rei return to Earth amid a media circus. In the aftermath of the flooding of the Ghost Sector of New Bombay, the world debates over what to do with the survivors - no one wants them. With the Black Star Drive vessel completed and tensions over its launch running high, the mysterious Wraith initiates a series of terrorist attacks designed to kill the would-be astronauts and destroy their ship!"

"(W) Andrew E.C. Gaska (A) Daniel Dussault The dramatic conclusion to the first mini-series! The gravitic drive vessel Black Rabbit is on the pad for its earthborn launch to new worlds! Prime Minister Blacklytter bans public transmission of the liftoff! The Wraith infiltrates the launch bay with the intent of hijacking the starship! Young John Adams makes a stand for his beliefs, and pays the ultimate price! Disaster strikes New Bombay, heralding the end of Hope itself! Angel Rei stares long and hard into a bottle of sleeping pills! Countess Watwani races to stop her husband from committing genocide! All this, and Coney, Eryc, and Pandita find their flight out-system blocked by a police force! As all points converge, will Thomm finally realize his grandparents' dream of a new beginning for mankind, and a future amongst the stars?"