After four years of courting, Alyssa and Tucker are about to tie the knot. However, suddenly the usually easy going Tucker becomes obsessed with every minute detail of the wedding planning, confusing his friends and family with his high strung antics. Unbeknownst to Tucker, he has come down under the spell of his grandmother's very unique engagement ring.
In the heart of the military academy of the United Nations Space Command (UNSC), a group of cadets trains to become the next generation of soldiers of this war against the insurgents of the colonized planets. Among these cadets, we find Thomas LASKY who fights his doubts as to the relevance of this war and his fear of not being up to the hopes placed in him. As he prepares to become a great military leader, the alien alliance of the Covenant comes to upset everything. Very inspired by the life of the Master Chief, he must discover what it means to be a hero.
After flying home to L.A. for the funeral of his estranged record-producer father, a struggling man discovers that the will stipulates that he must deliver $150,000 in cash to a 30-year-old alcoholic sister he never knew existed, and her troubled 12-year-old son.
A coming-of-age story, Forward Unto Dawn follows a cadet, Thomas Lasky, at a twenty-sixth century military training academy as it is attacked by the Covenant, an alliance of alien zealots. Lasky is unsure of his future within the military but feels pressured to follow in the footsteps of his mother and brother. Lasky and his surviving squad mates are rescued by the Master Chief and, after the death of his romantic interest, Chyler Silva, Lasky is inspired by the Chief to take initiative and aids him in saving the remaining cadets.
