The Elders of Otarka

The year is 2233AD. Joshua has lived most of his fifteen years on a station orbiting the planet Epsilon Eridani d. Life on the station is dull for teenagers, and Joshua yearns for the kind of adventure he has read about in books. Then, one day an opportunity presents itself when the shuttle bay doors are mysteriously left open. Joshua, his cat, and his friend Suli ‘borrow’ a shuttle and go down to the surface of the planet. They really only want to get a look at the archeological excavations firsthand, but things become serious when an alien entity causes them to crash through the surface of the planet into a hidden area. A trans-dimensional portal then takes them to Sissakh, another world where they find two astronauts who went missing half a century ago. Why have they been brought to this alien planet, and whom should they side with in a war of ideologies which may decide not only the future of Sissakh, but also that of the entire human race?