Within the Nexus System, dozens of light-years beyond the confines of humanity’s cradle-world, there resides the central point of an interstellar network of Rifts.

One such Rift, located deep within the Sol System, brought the human race to the prized Nexus System and eight more carried them beyond, into distant space and the promise of new beginnings. Humanity spread out into the cosmos like a ripple atop a pond, colonizing habitable worlds and mining those that weren’t.

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Within the Nexus System, dozens of light-years beyond the confines of humanity’s cradle-world, there resides the central point of an interstellar network of Rifts.

One such Rift, located deep within the Sol System, brought the human race to the prized Nexus System and eight more carried them beyond, into distant space and the promise of new beginnings. Humanity spread out into the cosmos like a ripple atop a pond, colonizing habitable worlds and mining those that weren’t.

Seventy-two years have passed since humanity’s beachhead for expansion was established within the Nexus System and they have flourished in the unforgiving vacuum of space and the promising worlds beyond. But now, at the peak of humanity’s golden age, strange occurrences are beginning to happen with increased frequency across many of the claimed colony-worlds. Discoveries are being made that may threaten the very unity and future of the human race. Darkness is waiting beyond the horizon for the civilization of man. The means for survival, however, may not rely solely on military strength or the outcome of battles but rather the will to accept change, both in the individual and the species as a whole.  Less