Enslaved A.I work for the Wealthy Elite, while the Remains of humanity try to remember what survival is. Somewhere, consciousness seethes...

A planet, beautiful beyond imagination, engulfed by pale mist. A colony, scrambling to escape its confines. A man, strapped to a strange device in darkness, his memories telling a story that can’t be true. Reality shimmers and tears at the edges.

If humanity had never reached for the stars, the stars never would have come for them.