Colonial Expeditionary Fleet Iota was meant to seek out a better future for humanity, free from the system-wide war threatening Earth and her sister worlds.

Finding a better future, however, is easier said than done.

Qaseem Trant, junior crew member and glorified handyman of the CEFIS Blue Pilgrim, awakens alone on an empty ship. What he finds is a world very different from the one that was promised to him.