About Tau Ceti

In 2050 the first wave of colonists left Earth for the nearby Solar system of Tau Ceti, as the first waves of man's great adventure. On the inhospitable desert world of Tau Ceti III a new life began. In ninety years thirty great cities were built, until without warning a great plague decimated the new world. The remaining desperate colonists were evacuated and in time a cure was found. An expedition force was dispatched and then destroyed by the now malfuntioning defence systems. The only way to incapacitate the automatic defenders was to shut down the massive fusion reactor the fueled the planet. It was decided that a single highly skilled pilot in an armed ground skimmer might succeed where fifty would surely fail. Like a fool you volunteered.