STARS END (2018)

"6,000 years ago, the Annunaki, visitors to Earth, departed with numerous animals as subjects for study and DNA experiments. Centuries in the future, these evolved beasts, collectively known as N'Naki, have created vast civilizations in the Sirius system, with humans serving as their worker bees. One group of N'Naki are given a pre-graduation duty: Scan a mining world of human workers that's fallen victim to a viral infection before the planet is demolished to stop the disease from spreading. But when a sixteen-year-old Annunaki girl turns up, the mission quickly becomes anything but routine."

"Murder and mutiny are the order of the day on the Excursionist, as crew members square off over the recent death of their captain. They must reassert their Pod training and work together before they're destroyed from within or 'censored' from without."

"Possessed by the Hai N'Naki brain core and now controlling the cruiser The Stars End , Arianna gets the ship to fire on the Excursionist, then demands to be brought aboard. Via hologram, she threatens to do more damage, so Captain Peri reluctantly agrees. However, Peri has put her own plan into motion to safeguard her crew and ship."

"ACTION-PACKED FINAL ISSUE As Arianna and Captain Peri square off, the two ships' crews vie either to free Arianna or to take her down to save everyone else. Abruptly, the Admiralty's machinations are revealed when an elite combat group arrives on the scene to throw a wrench in the works."