At the end of humanity's "Golden Age," when people had left their cradle and basked in the light of controlled nuclear fusion, an ancient beacon buried beneath the frozen surface of the Kuiper Belt suddenly lit up, like the universe's cold mockery. It revealed the "Ghostway Network," a hyperspace web woven by an unknown hand and linking billions of stars across the galaxy. Humanity, a child that had only just learned to gaze at the stars, felt for the first time the true vastness of the universe and the chilling malice lurking within it.
