Jack Vance has returned from the brink of death, unlocking depths of power that no student at Darkthorn Academy was ever meant to wield. But his newfound strength is immediately tested when a simple investigation in the Ancient Lands triggers a catastrophic quest. Accidentally activating a dormant Sky Raider command center, Jack, Lana, and Stann are ripped from their world and hurled across the cosmos to Vortha—the hostile, ancestral home planet of humanity.