Our dreams of conquering the heavens are about to morph into a hell-bound nightmare. When a team of scientists, engineers and pioneers take the first steps toward an FTL drive, they unwittingly unleash a horror the likes of which no human, transhuman or AI before - or after - has ever before witnessed. The event sends shockwaves across space and time. Planets and governments are on the brink of war. An arms race the likes of which our universe has never seen is underway. And something else has the Solar System as a whole in its crosshairs, and it approaches with a fury hotter than the Sun, and faster than the speed of light.