Southern Cross gets really close to being really good during second volume. It got only two issues after this before it was cancelled. It has some problems but nothing which should result cancellation of the title.
Second volume starts new story arc. Southern Cross has disappeared and only survivor has landed to mining station where Southern Cross should have gone. New characters and new setting. New characters try to find out what happened to Southern Cross while mining station descends into madness. Everything is quite solid until story start to lose consistency and things just start to fall from sky to advance the story. Southern Cross mixes hard science fiction and weird horror well. I am fine with spirit or force ghost taking character to another dimension. I am not fine with character having strong motivation and then doing something which stops him getting what he originally wanted for no good reason. Reason was money but I think surviving is better motivation. Getting to collect that money was quite a reach at that point.
I hoped this would end in good jumping off point or wasn’t as good as first volume. Neither happened. Volume ends with cliffhanger. I probably have to get those last two issues to see where this was heading to. Second half of this volume started to introduce characters which I don’t think belong into this kind of story and set story to take different route. If this was like Alien 3 I think next volume was supposed to be more like Aliens. I enjoyed both volumes. Don’t know if third would have been as good considering where second half of this volume started to go. Still I would have got it.