The Republic of Humanity has kept the peace for thousands of years. Its laws are precise. Its borders are secure. Its version of history is complete. At least, that is what its citizens are taught. When small, ordinary lives intersect with forgotten systems and forbidden signals, long-buried questions begin to surface. Soldiers start to hesitate. Refugees remember things they were never authorized to know. Messages appear where no record says they should exist. Across distant worlds and silent corridors, people who should never matter to history find themselves caught inside systems far older and more fragile than the Republic admits. Order begins to fracture at the edges. Ships disappear without explanation. Records rewrite themselves. And time leaves fingerprints it was never meant to.