Rigel Porter, Titan Tempest astronaut, cuts through space over a billion kilometers from Earth. He has made the 1.2 billion km trek to Saturn's largest moon twice--this time, he may not be coming home.

"Space is the cure to careless savagery, to stagnant two-party politics, to the fear that condemns visionary science to the dusty shelves of oblivion." So says Franklin Kline on the day he is meant to die.