As he and the other Ranger candidates face their final training scenario, which is to destroy a downed experimental weapon, they find an immensely impressive prop slightly away from the expected location.
Placing their demolition charges they think they've had an unexpectedly easy ride. The only problem is: this isn't their objective.
CW: injury detail, so much jingoistic macho hoora I think I made myself dumber just by watching it
CW: jump scares, suicide
When made obsolete by a new generation of genetically engineered replacements he is dumped and left for dead on a planet that serves as a garbage pile.
No good will come of this.
When the land is taken, the heir to Ehdan, Prince Talon (Lee Horsley) escapes and grows up to be a great mercenary and pirate.
Now a decade after he lost a kingdom Talon returns for revenge.
CW: objectification of women of the "slutty concubines" variety and the worst wigs I have seen for a long long time.
It soon becomes evident that nobody can sleep any more.
Much as this seems like an opportunity for partying for some, proper sleep deprivation is a serious problem and society goes into collapse as even the most stable suffer from poor judgement and hallucinations.
For some reason, Jill's daughter can still sleep so she heads to a place where people are trying to work out what's wrong and how to fix it.
He is the last survivor of the original crew, sent to a distant black hole to conduct hazardous experiments.
Slowly we learn how he came to be here, alone, and why he can never go back.