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Thrive Aden Ruin
- Narrated by: Virtual Voice
- Length: 11 hrs and 2 mins
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Dark-humored Frazzie, and stolid engineer Tiktok, win rank and cadet berths on Sass Collier’s exciting mission to investigate the dead colony world of Aden. Eerie ruins nestle among Aden’s dark rugged canyons, and a quarter million settlers are gone.
What destroyed Aden colony?
Meanwhile Frazzie’s father, admiral Ben Acosta, migrates Rayas Colony. Cadets can transport the people. But the Rayans also need their precious space station transferred. That engineering feat requires Ben.
Do they have the League’s blessing? No.
Do they care? Also no.
Sass and Ben foresee no major hurdles. They’ve succeeded at similar missions before. Then the Colony Corps abruptly loses them both.
When Frazzie and Tiktok face what killed planet Aden, can they survive their coming of age?
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