Haarsma, PJ

As the Scion's guardian, Johnny Turnbull is expected to begin training as a Space Jumper, a role he promised his girlfriend Max he would never take on, and which might not be enough to save his sister and friends when Orbis is threatened.

Johnny Turnbull, his little sister Ketheria, and fellow knudniks encounter wormhole pirates who deliver a cryptic threat to Johnny, but things get worse when his friend Max begins avoiding him and his sister becomes ill.

After being orphaned on the seed ship "Renaissance", thirteen-year-old Johnny Turnbull and his sister, Ketheria, are forced to work on the Rings of Orbis, where Johnny learns he is the first human Softwire, with a gift to enter any computer via his mind.

JT learns that the Samirans, a race of aquatic aliens who are controling the crystals on Orbis, have created a brutal system of enforced labor that is causing the society to break down, and as JT tries to appease the Samirans and end their vicious rule, he finds his own life, and the lives of his friends, in danger.

After being orphaned on the seed ship "Renaissance", thirteen-year-old Johnny Turnbull and his sister, Ketheria, are forced to work on the Rings of Orbis, where Johnny learns he is the first human Softwire, with a gift to enter any computer via his mind.