Pathfinder : A New Frontier - Part 2 of the Becoming Series

Pathfinder: A New Frontier continues the story of the SSV Pathfinder after humanity’s first faster-than-light jump goes catastrophically wrong. Thrown far beyond any system known to the Alliance, Captain Noah Andersson and his surviving crew find themselves stranded, damaged, and cut off from everything they understand. Their experimental drive is gone. Their position is impossible to verify. One of their own is dead. And beyond the viewport waits an artificial structure unlike anything humanity has ever built. When first contact finally comes, it is not with curiosity or welcome, but with suspicion. The Pathfinder is taken to Thedas, a world at the center of an ancient and powerful civilization that already knows more about humanity than humanity knows about itself. To the Inquisition, Andersson, Reece, and Hale are not explorers. They are an anomaly — primitive, impossible, and potentially dangerous. With no way home and no choice but to adapt, the crew must navigate alien politics, unfamiliar species, and the unsettling possibility that their arrival was not an accident. Humanity has reached the stars. The stars were already waiting.