<I>2565 AD.</I> When seventeen-year-old Marine cadet Arun McEwan forges an unlikely friendship with an alien scribe he crashes into a world of treachery and conspiracy. How can he possibly survive three more years until graduation when every day brings a new deadly threat? But survive he must because his new alien allies show him glimpses of his destiny-a vision of a better future that only he can forge. A dream called the <I>Human Legion</I>.