It’s 2575 and Kady Grant has just broken up with her boyfriend, Ezra, when their planet, Kerenza, is attacked by BeiTech Industries in a attempt to control the planet’s secret mining operation.  Kady, her mother and Ezra all escape on three different spaceships.  Only one, the Alexander, is equipped to do battle with the pursuing BeiTech warship, the Lincoln.  As the ships flee, a deadly virus breaks out on one ship, AIDAN, the artificial intelligence controller is malfunctioning, and the enemy is closing in.  Ezra is forced into military service to do battle with the Lincoln and Kady is set to work in the computer programming department where she learns to hack into the systems to try and find out what is really going on.  First in a trilogy, Illuminae is told through hacked emails, files, maps, IMs, medical reports, interviews and AIDAN, the AI.