The Merchandise Guide
Novelisations
Novels Guide
Compiled by Martin Willey

Survival by Brian Ball

Powys. foreword by Barry Morse
1st edition: March 2005
2nd edition (paperback/trade/hardback): 28 Feb 2017
194 pages
Chronology: Transitional Year 1 - 2

Continuity

After Year 1, shortly before Metamorph.

• The Alphans encounter a disabled ship, Susurra, with refugees from planet Leiram, most in statis.
• A group of Leira try to take over Main Mission, but Koenig switches control to Command Center.
• Bill Fraser fires a warning shot over the alien ship, but shrapnel hits Bergman and Leiran engineer Yendys, who were in space trying to repair the ship.
• Eroca is a Leiran who seduces Alan Carter to learn about Alpha, but her feelings are genuine, and she eventually overthrows the Leiran leaders.
• The Alphans believe Bergman is dead, but he is in fact being healed in stasis on the Susurra.
• Susurra and the Leirans, including Eroca and Yendys, plus Bergman, will reappear in Omega