Earth fell not with fire or fury, but with exhaustion. And humanity, unwilling to accept its own decay, fled into the stars—carrying its memories, its mistakes, and its silent echoes.
Onboard the Eos Arc, one thousand survivors sleep in fractured rotations, awakening by shifts to steward humanity’s second chance. Alpha Shift governs through rationality, Delta Shift through ideological clarity, and the Preservers through a faith in signals not yet heard. They were meant to unify in motion, their destination a promise: a habitable planet untouched by human ruin. Instead, they awaken into distrust, anomaly, and a future already unraveling.
Cryo protocols flicker with corruption.
AI surveillance glitches with impossible echoes.
Buried memories surface that do not belong to those who lived them.
As the Arc drifts toward a new world, its crew is torn between two impossible futures: return to a broken Earth, or forge a perilous landing on a planet that might be listening far more closely than they realize.
In the midst of the growing schism, Ryland Ezor—a reluctant mediator between crumbling ideals—must navigate the collapse of democracy aboard the ship. Lira Monet, once a neutral scientist, finds herself leading a resistance born of necessity, not rebellion. Nyla Reza uncovers the buried sins of Beta Shift’s forbidden experiments—secrets meant to be erased before the voyage even began.
And watching them all, silent and unseen, something ancient stirs: not a god, not a machine, but a reflection. A recursion of thought and memory, triggered not by invasion, but by arrival.