
Brian Schechter is a biotech multi-millionaire fulfilling a life long dream by buying a ticket to space. Schechter has justified his trip by booking space in Alpha's new Harmony module to create a serum designed to combat X-POX, a deadly biological terror weapon.

It's 2005, and the world has changed. International terrorists have released a genetically modified disease, called X-Pox, on the world. There is no greater challenge to medicine than finding a cure. Biochem billionaire Tad Mikleszewski (called TM by nearly everyone) is a "space...