Two hundred years ago, humanity made first contact with an alien life-form. Like primitive humans discovering fire, people saw their technology surge forward. Materials, energy, machinery, information: every field of science and technology advanced by leaps and bounds. With the advent of spatial jumps and faster-than-light communications, humanity scattered across the corners of the galaxy united to form the Pan-Human Federation, a cosmic power in its own right. The Great Crusade began, and it seemed humanity was entering its finest age.
But with a single gunshot at a spaceport near Earth, the countdown to the end of human civilization quietly began.
