Meteor strike!

Harvey Ricks never shied away from a tough job, but floating in the vacuum of space he can’t help wondering if this one might finally be his undoing. A routine shipment of seven aluminum crates, each the size of a small fridge, has been ferried from a Los Angeles warehouse to the bustling Tangiers Poe, the Earth‑side launch hub feeding the Moon’s ever‑growing network of factories and research stations. Under the watchful eyes of seasoned cargomasters Glenn Blair and Cy Braddock, the cargo is marked “priority one” for the Quartermaster Base, a heavily‑automated outpost orbiting the Moon that supplies everything from delicate electronics to life‑support parts.

The mystery deepens when the manifest labels the shipment as “low priority” to some, yet Blair insists that without it the base could become “more dangerous than a cannibal village.” As the crates are prepped for the thirty‑three‑day trek to the lunar depot, a sense of impending trouble builds, hinting that the seemingly ordinary freight may hold the key to a larger crisis waiting just beyond Earth’s atmosphere.