Tunnel Jumpers Earth 2303 After the scars and devastation of two world wars, humans have, as a species, begun to cooperate towards a common goal, the expansion into space and the successful colonization of Mars and our Moon. This has led to the exploration and eventual building of domed outposts on some of the moons of the outer gas giants. Because of a breakthrough in space travel, vehicles can move at nearly 20 percent of the speed of light, allowing humans to reach the outermost parts of the solar system and beyond in practical time. When an experiment to study dark matter beyond the Oort Cloud yields an unexpected result, the government scrambles to discover why their probe appears to have traveled much farther than planned, and why their probe has what appears to be damage caused by a weapon. They then analyze the probe's data and find that they have picked up a signal that seems to have originated from an intelligent source. A new manned mission is initiated to discover the origin of the signal, but the mission lands itself near an exoplanet, and in the middle of a fevered conflict. Tunnel Jumpers begins...
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