Beyond the Veil

Welcome to the 23rd century, where man is ruled by machine.Hal Raiden was once a high-powered enforcer for the Elders, the cybernetic overlords of humankind. Now he lives a quiet life on the plains of Mars, his deadly sword traded for a dusty ploughshare.That all changes when an Elder summons him with grim news. A catastrophic famine is looming, and the only solution is to migrate humanity to the distant habitable world of Arcadia. But a mysterious barrier called the Veil stands in the way, and now the scientists who hold the keys to piercing it have vanished.Ordered to find and return the scientists, Hal's search leads him across the solar system and into the heart of a conspiracy reaching all the way up to the Elders themselves. For there are some who only want Arcadia for themselves?and some who want no one to find it at all. Caught in the middle of this power struggle, Hal is forced to choose a side-and with it, the future of the human race.