Dusk: 1 (Dusk Trilogy)

With the Earth overpopulated and polluted a group of twenty premier scientists must depart on a mission to explore Asha a distant uninhabited planet that may offer solutions to humanitys burgeoning problems. But when they arrive at Asha the scientists are brusquely greeted by a mysterious human military force that imprisons them with no explanation. They find that during their journey a faster ship not only delivered humans to Asha but those humans defeated Earth in an interplanetary civil war. With this war and the discovery of an inexplicable link to mankinds past the team finds Asha holds more mysteries than answers. Astrophysicist Cyrus Chamberlain is among those who left behind their old lives and risked everything on this journey. Unfortunately for Dr. Chamberlain he finds that even if he survives the many challenges this new world holds for him he may have already lost more than he ever imagined.