No Starless Night

This is a story about warriors, farmers, and the places in between. This is a story about space, and soil. But mostly, this is the story that Nicola fell into, a space marine sci fi on a doomed ship, upon which the poor girl found herself without a single violent skill to her name. Armed only with the knowledge given to her by a book that preferred ominous ambiguity to clarity, she needs to find her way home, or save the ship from itself.  The prion mutants the space marines fight against are fearsome. But not half as fearsome as human nature. What a shame, that these Marines and the superhuman Ideal who leads them know so little of humanity, or nature, or anything but their gruesome, necessary work.  Neither the Marines, nor Nicola can save them alone.