Newcomers arrive on the Nelson Mandela Medical Space Station continuously: ship crews, new medical staff, casualties in cryopods, and occasionally, the unexpected or the unwelcome. When a strange ship called the Inferno , docks at the station, offloading six patients in cryopods, it at first garners little attention. But then a series of catastrophic events occur that threaten the lives of everyone on board the Nelson Mandela and beyond. With Bud destroyed, can Dr. Grace Lord save the day?