''Destiny'' is set on a collision course to the star. There is only working shuttle, three planets in the system that ''might'' support life, and a lot of desperate people.

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!Tropes
* ABirthdayNotABreak: Sgt. Riley's birthday is the same day he's forced to abandon ''Destiny'', apparently forever.
* DissonantSerenity: Rush is very calm about the likelihood of dying by stellar gravitation effects.
* EscapePod: 17 of the crew will use the shuttle as one, hoping that the only 'Goldilocks' planet in the star system is habitable.
* FaceDeathWithDignity: Most of the ''Destiny'' crew accept their fate, but there are exceptions like Sergeant Spencer.
* LotteryOfDoom: Young holds one, to determine who will escape the doomed ship in the remaining shuttle.
* ThePowerOfTheSun: The ''Destiny'' is literally powered by the stars themselves. The ship dives into suns to recharge its power reserves.
* WhamLine: "Unless you knew," spoken by Young to Rush, who after all ''is'' the expedition's expert on ''Destiny.'' It is left up in the air if Rush knew the whole time their was no real threat, (he opted out of the lottery, the only one other than Young to have done so) but rather was just using the lottery thing as a gambit to get rid of Young, whom he may have thought would try to save himself.