Jake Harrison was 7 years old when the news broke about the discovery of a wrecked alien spaceship on the moon. He was aware of some of the world’s reactions to the news but didn’t really understand it. He was more than excited by it himself. With his parents both in academia, his mother a college instructor with a degree in Astronomy, and his father a physicist, the whole creation versus evolution question never really came into play.

The idea of an advanced alien intelligence grabbed at his imagination even if the evidence was something like 65 million years old. Just the fact that where there was one, might there not be another?  At that early age, he decided he wanted to be as close to that wreck as he could. He studied hard, got good grades, and passed all his classes. He also spent large chunks of time learning everything he could about the research being done to learn from the wreck.

When the Selene Consortium announced their plans for Selene City, he knew that’s where he was going. However, the Consortium wouldn’t allow an employee under the age of 25 to work on the moon. So he threw himself into the world of mechanical engineering. He’d always had a knack for mechanical devices and their control systems. He seemed to have a gift of being able to study a system that was “misbehaving” and going right to the source of the problem without a lot of tedious diagnostics. He just knew.

Jake had first approached the Consortium when he graduated high school. When he found out about the age limit (he was 17 at the time) he was disappointed but resolved to prepare himself as well as he could. Although, apparently, the Consortium had kept tabs on him. A month before his 25th birthday he received an email requesting him to come in for an interview.

That interview changed his entire life…