We call it CORE for three reasons ...

Our stories are set near the CORE OF THE GALAXY, where the sky is a blinding tapestry of close-set stars and nebulae ...

Taking place in a rough-and-tumble Mining Operation drilling into the CORE OF A PLANET for riches found only there -- and the boom town that houses the workers, the hangers-on and those who prey on the weak where fortunes are to be had ...

Where we peel back layer upon layer of the characters we come to know -- some human, some alien -- getting to the CORE OF THEIR PASSIONS, the fires that drive them, both good and bad, that can raise them up or scatter their ashes to the winds.

Put simply, CORE is the story of SULLIVAN REESE, a cop who comes from Earth under a cloud of scandal to join the small force policing HOPE TOWN, the mining operation on the hellish planet OBERON.

Accompanying him is his 14-year-old daughter TINA. So Reese has two 24-hour jobs on his hands - full-time cop and father.

Oberon's a tough place to try to lay down the law. Most cops don't last a year, they're either run off or killed. But Reese has nowhere else to go -- it's work here or serve a prison sentence in Earth orbit.

Three races work the mine and live in the City, all from planets in other systems:

HUMANS ...

Big, brutal (but oddly spiritual) beings called TARGS ...

And elegant, smooth-talking creatures called ENYARDS.

Also there are the Y'MAA (pronounced "Ee-mah," or the derogatory "Eemies"), who seem to have always been on this planet but who live a low, dim life and are only good for fetch and carry, little smarter than dogs.

The humans, Targs and Enyards have formed a partnership to mine the planet, as each has skills the others need to extract the rare AMBERJACK found only here - and which is of immense (and different) use to each race.

Although all three races take part in every aspect of Oberon's operation, the humans run the POLICE FORCE (the youngest of the three species, they're viewed -- rightly or wrongly -- as the most savage, with the greatest capacity for violence), the Targs oversee MINING OPERATIONS and the Enyards head up ADMINISTRATIVE DUTIES.

But it's a shaky alliance, none of the races trusting the others. There's constant back-biting, jockeying for power, each looking for ways to do without the other two.

And if it all crashes down into riot and chaos, the Enyards have the territorial right to declare martial law, enslaving the workers and calling the shots. So they're always working behind the scenes to sow discord and fan the flames.

In terms of tone, CORE is character rather than gimmick-driven. Mean streets on another planet. Tough, passionate men and women. Hard choices … and a cop caught in the middle.