2321, Iris Jackson, an American astronaut for the International Space Agency is sent to investigate a mysterious anomaly on the fringes of the Solar System. But before her ship can arrive, a cataclysmic event known as the Conflux brings human civilisation crashing down at the height of the golden age of space exploration. Earth is destroyed. Humanity is left scattered throughout the ruins of the Solar System. Alien races that evolved on Earth in parallel universes are now brought together into one singular existence by the merging of the multiverse. Whilst some coexist peacefully, others wage war against the remnants of human civilisation. Iris awakens from cryosleep thousands of years after she first set out, pulled from the wreckage of her ship by Arthur Asimov, a renegade ex-marine and starship engineer turned pirate. Confronted with an unrecognisable universe of faster-than-light travel, bizarre alien species, and strangest of all, black magic, Iris and Arthur become entangled in world-shaking events that once again threaten to unravel the fabric of reality.