A space pilot ordered to annihilate a human colony contemplates sabotaging the mission, but the autopilot on the ship maintains the course.

On a lunar outpost, a group of coworkers pass the time by making historical movies and debating whether history is the product of individual efforts or of the nebulous interactions of everyday people. The stakes of the debate become all too real, however, when a breach of the base requires one of the friends to prove his heroic mettle.

A sentient rocket ship that malfunctioned and crashed on a planet reminisces on its time as a war ship in battle against the Martians and its love for its former crew.

While a howitzer liaison for an American military unit in Afghanistan returns home on parental leave, his unit embarks on a mission to find two missing soldiers and finds a possibly permanent replacement for him.

On an intergalactic spaceship, two runaway servants turned mercenaries agree to a dangerous mission that will take them back to the planet from which they escaped—in return for a shot at a clean record and a peaceful life.

When a rebel space pilot discovers a potential cure to the plague that has enslaved most of the known galaxy under an iron-fisted corporation, she must risk life, limb, and soul to return the specimen to her fellow revolutionaries.

When an Iraq veteran goes missing, his friends reenact their wartime routines to lure him out of hiding.