In 2232, the curvature engine aboard the Kuafu crashed out of control, and chief scientist Lin Feng fell into an unfamiliar star system.
> Every living thing on this planet knelt facing the same direction. Lin Feng spent three weeks building a probe to investigate beneath the surface.
> An energy being that called itself the consciousness of the universe was imprisoned in a hollow at the planet’s core. It revealed the truth of the universe:
> “All things return to the source. The universe is a cage, and I am the key.”
> Lin Feng watched a star map unfold on the ship’s screen. A whisper sounded in his mind: “You, too, came from the Source.”