Chapter One: Rock Garden

In the future, clouds of microscopic probes are launched at near-light-speed from Earth to nearby star systems. After transmitting their findings back to Earth, a starship ferries thousands of colonists to a new world. But the manned expedition finds something very different from what the probes promised. Now, while struggling to fit in with a crew of scientists, ship's clerk Ryder Kask works to uncover the growing mysteries surrounding their mission.