The year is 2380, and the graduating cadets of Aurora Academy are being assigned their first missions. Star pupil Tyler Jones is ready to recruit the squad of his dreams, but his own heroics get in the way. After rescuing Aurora Jie-Lin O’Malley from cryosteal, Tyler is forced to accept a squad of misfits and losers. Aurora has been asleep for two hundred years and may be the catalyst for a war that has been brewing for millennia. Tyler’s squad of losers, discipline cases, and sociopaths might just be the galaxy’s only hope.

This edition of Aurora Rising was featured in the Illumicrate 'The Final Frontier' subscription box from May 2019.