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Christopher and his fellow juvenile survivors of an attack on their space-colony mining community (MiNRS) go on the offensive against a new "Lander" who wants to destroy what's left. Their mysterious contact from Earth hints at deeper conspiracies. Broadly drawn characters lack nuance, but well-defined conflicts among the survivors maximize narrative tension, and the near-continuous cinema-ready action sequences flow smoothly.