Jacob wants to follow in the footsteps of his parents - to travel looking for relics of forgotten technology in hopes of restoring his fallen colony planet to the technological level of founders intended. Unfortunately since he was orphaned, he has been stuck in a small town on the edge of nowhere with little hope of getting out any time soon. All he has left is his dream of being an apprentice in the Labor Force; the misnamed organization that perpetuates the skills he will need to make it in a not so friendly world full of criminals and powerful foreign powers.Newly promoted, Logan is the youngest ever fully qualified member of the Labor Force. He neither seeks nor desires an apprentice. Misfortune brings them together and Logan reluctantly begins training Jacob. Then on a routine training mission they stumble across a relic that could lead them to the last library and a chance to decide the fate of their entire colony.
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