While on an illegal deep-space silver ore mining mission, the crew of the MACRAE —1391 investigates a mysterious distress signal. Landing on a synthetically atmosphered asteroid on the dark side of the Moon, they discover a jettisoned escape pod, bringing back a lone survivor who incubates an awful secret. When exposed to the Moon's lunar rays, an ancient evil is reborn to stalk and pick off the crew, one by one. Can Captain Jennifer Hadley overcome the ghosts of her past to stop the beast? Will muscle-bound grunts Cade Chiarella and Jones Easterbrook turn the creature into a living-room rug? Will playboy mining expert Shane Conroy finally do something useful to stop the monster? Can engineer Kyle Norrington's knowledge of twentieth-century horror cinema save them all? No matter how their night of terror ends, there is one thing they will never forget: In space … there's always a full moon.