Jumanji meets Star Trek in this fun, wholesome, adventure story. Growing up in the IPT Pepper found the outside world terrifying. Forced to go to school everyday to deal with the blinding light of the sun, the constant harassment she faced because of her eyes. her nickname, Ghost Girl. Even on her eighth birthday, she couldn't escape the torment, saved today by her only friend Justin, who earned the nickname Beetle boy, because he seemed to like beetles more than people. None of it mattered today though, the only thing on Pepper's mind today is her Eruditio. Unable to progress until she reached ten percent of average age, she had been waiting years for this day. Arriving home from school with Justin, thinking she is just going to unlock a new level, though the game is not what it seems. The next level is a survival challenge on an M-class planet half way across the galaxy. With no way back but to go forward they soon find this world is not as hostile as it first seems. Thinking they have a handle on things they soon find their not alone on this world. Now fighting for their lives against unfamiliar foes Pepper and Justin have to use all they've learned to stay alive. Though with the odds stacking up against them lesson completion becomes secondary as they find themselves fighting for their lives.

Jumanji meets Star Trek in this fun, wholesome, adventure story. Growing up in the IPT Pepper found the outside world terrifying. Forced to go to school everyday to deal with the blinding light of the sun, the constant harassment she faced because of her eyes. her nickname, Ghost Girl. Even on her eighth birthday, she couldn't escape the torment, saved today by her only friend Justin, who earned the nickname Beetle boy, because he seemed to like beetles more than people. None of it mattered today though, the only thing on Pepper's mind today is her Eruditio. Unable to progress until she reached ten percent of average age, she had been waiting years for this day. Arriving home from school with Justin, thinking she is just going to unlock a new level, though the game is not what it seems. The next level is a survival challenge on an M-class planet half way across the galaxy. With no way back but to go forward they soon find this world is not as hostile as it first seems. Thinking they have a handle on things they soon find their not alone on this world. Against unfamiliar foes, Pepper and Justin have to use all they've learned to finish the lesson. Though with the odds stacking up against them, lesson completion becomes secondary as they find themselves fighting for their lives.

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Y. Fujimori, Symposium Programme Committee Chair, and Faculty Member, International Space University e-mail: [email protected] M.Rycroft, Faculty Member, International Space University e-mail: [email protected] N. Crosby, International Space University e-mail: [email protected] For the sixth annual ISU Symposium the theme was "Smaller Satellites: Bigger Business? Concepts, Applications and Markets for Micro/Nanosatellites in a New Information World". Thus, the Symposium addressed the crucial question: are small satellites the saviour of space programmes around the world It did this from the unique perspective of the International Space today? University - the interdisciplinary, international and intercultural perspective. This Symposium brought together a variety of people working on small satellites - engineers, scientists, planners, providers, operators, policy makers and business executives, together with representatives from regulatory bodies, from national and international organizations, and from the finance sector, and also entrepreneurs. Discussion and debate were encouraged, based on the papers presented and those published here.

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