Crisis Generation

This is Dominick Costigan. The Protagonist I've spent the last two years with.

Dom's got a problem.

He lives on a 400 year old generation ship named Cataclyst. He is one of the last teenagers left alive in the universe and will be seventy years old before the ship finally reaches its destination, but that's not the problem.

He's butting heads with his mother - and the majority of the crew, at that - because he won't accept the Doctrine of Redress that Humanity must return to the dead Earth to try and save it. Nothing new.

His crush on a fellow crew mate named Geoffrey isn't so bad, even if it'll never go anywhere and is kind of illegal. His decision to confess that crush to his devoutly Redressionist brother, Prince, was probably a mistake. Still, not the end of Humanity.

Accidentally discovering he is one of the ship's CryBabies - the lab-grown children that help keep Cataclyst's genetic diversity, unrelated to the family that raised him - was definitely a surprise blow, but even that will have to wait.

His biggest problem is not that Cataclyst has just been ripped in half by a violent explosion that's trapped the underage crew in the aft section, far from the adult crew and his Captain father in the fore.

It's not the strange, armed vessel looming outside Cataclyst’s windows that caused the explosion in the first place.

The worst of it is not even that the Redressionists believe the ship has come to tow them all the way back to Earth.

No, the worst of it is that the Redressionist crew that Dom grew up with - friends, family, all of them - knew the ship was coming, let the attack happen, and will kill to make sure the Doctrine of Redress is fulfilled.

  

A freshly torn divide between the Redressionist crew and the unbelievers thrusts Dom in charge of hundreds of young lives, pitting him against the boy he'd always called ‘brother’. Determined to get away from their attackers, he must find a way to get the broken generation ship moving again before their chance to reach a new home planet is gone for good. To do that, he will need to rejoin the two halves of Cataclyst, all the while trying to stay one step ahead of his fanatical brother and his dangerous allies.

Redress would kill to drag them backward toward Earth. Dom is ready to die to make sure they keep moving forward.

CRISIS GENERATION: DIVIDE.

Mitch Sullivan

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