Seer: Season Zero
Before Seer set sail, someone had already ventured into the universe. They were the "Pioneers": not robots built in a factory, but explorers whose human consciousness had been copied into mechanical bodies. They get tired, need to sleep, and dream. Sometimes, nerves even make them crash.
Luo Qi has the most tricks up his sleeve, but when he's scared, his mech short-circuits. Tie Yan is a battle maniac, but his blade is never fully charged. Xiao Man has a sharp tongue but a soft heart, and dreams of becoming the best Spirit Doctor in the universe.
Their ship, the Pathfinder, is bigger than the Seer, but its technology is clunkier: big, but not advanced; capable of traveling far, but liable to break down at any moment. Its engine runs on matter-antimatter annihilation. Its jumps can cover great distances, but it always misses its destination by just a little.
So every jump might leave them on a planet they never planned to visit: a forest that walks, ruins asleep for a thousand years, or a Spirit tribe that survives by scavenging scrap... Their star charts grow thicker by the day, and space pirates draw closer. There's also a new "passenger" aboard: a little creature they found that can speak human language and refuses to go into its capsule, no matter what.
Someone had to walk the path before it could exist.
