Zany Sci-Fi discussion coupled with very detailed reviews. Their ship gets hit by a tiny meteor storm and crash lands on a barren planet with three suns.
Survival is high on the list now that the prisoner is loose, and there's no water in sight.
However, come nightfall, there is something even more sinister to worry about. Events are complicated by the fact that one of the survivors is a criminal being transported to prison, and because what is apparently true about the planet is in fact wrong. The Insectoids have destroyed most of the fleet in a cowardly sneak attack. With humanity enslaved, the last survivors of a small fleet led by War Admiral Norman North try to escape the advancing Insectoid fleets while searching for a new weapon that they can use to fight back.