Tato série nás zavádí do světa na pokraji zkázy, kde se hrdinové musí postavit tváří v tvář globálním krizím. Protagonisté objevují skryté síly a potenciál v sobě samých, když se snaží zachránit lidstvo před temnotou. Příběhy prozkoumávají témata odvahy, sebeobjevování a toho, co znamená být hrdinou v těch nejnáročnějších situacích. Je to napínavé dobrodružství, které zkoumá hranice lidského ducha.
What if playing computer games could save the world...and the Government's secret weapon was you?Tom Raines is suddenly recruited into the US Army to train as a virtual reality Combatant to see if he is good enough to help fight World War Three.
Tom Raines and his friends return to the Pentagonal Spire for a new year, eager to continue their training for the elite Intrasolar Forces. But they soon discover troubling changes. Strict new regulations, suspicious agents in positions of power and the revelations that the Spire is under military control. The trainees are now cadets. What begins as an irritating adjustment soon reveals a dangerous shift in reality. Those in control have a ruthless agenda. And when the military academy begins welcoming suspicious new cadets, they reveal a plan with horrifying worldwide ramifications. Tom is desperate to stop it, and it seems he is not alone. But when the enemy comes for Tom, how much can he endure in the battle to save himself? In this exhilarating, explosive and heart-rendering conclusion to the INSIGNIA trilogy, CATALYST puts Tom and his intelligent, passionate and brave young friends through stunning tests, dangerous confrontations and into an impossible future they could never have predicted.