In the interstellar year 3025, purple-gray stardust enveloped the abandoned seventh colony star. A systemic disorder caused by the "star core" of the interstellar intelligence brain has left the planet silent for thousands of years. The remaining signal towers stand in the cosmic wind, witnessing the fault lines of interstellar civilization.
In the cracks in the observation cabin, Lin Xia tightly protected the glimmer of light in the neural interface—the remaining fragments of consciousness of her sister Lin Nian. In the "dispersion of consciousness" incident ten years ago, the sister holding the star candy was swept away by the sudden appearance of the code light flow. Now this stardust-like fragment is her only remaining comfort in the wasteland.
Chen Ye's noisy warning came from the communicator, and his energy pulse gun was aimed at the twisted nebula layer in the northeast. There, the giant alloy tower of the interstellar launch station is vaguely visible. The leader of the "scavengers" Chen Mo is starting the mysterious "Star Garden" program, and the energy index is close to the threshold.
Lin Xia's interface suddenly heated up, and the lavender light stream reflected broken images: a rotating star candy machine, a figure in a white uniform, a man holding a neural decoder... That was Chen Ye's brother, and the initiator of sealing his mother's consciousness in the central database.
Lao Gu's last message flashes in the data stream, indicating that today is both the end and the redemption - they must break through layers of obstacles, retrieve the imprisoned fragments of consciousness, and find new possibilities for the remaining interstellar civilization on the ruins of stardust.
