The Rise of the Alien Race in the Sea of Stars

During an interstellar voyage, the Steel Red Star G3220 industrial transport ship accidentally captured a black sphere, and everything began from there. Would the sphere become the final cog in humanity's fate, or Pandora's Box from the myths?

Was Lin Yu, one of humanity, the key to opening Pandora's Box, or the holy sword that would destroy it?

Evolution, birth, even death: did they all require a price?

What, exactly, is humanity?

What, exactly, is the world?

And what, exactly, am I?

This novel and its characters are entirely fictional. Any resemblance is purely coincidental. Do not imitate.