In an era when human civilization spreads across the sea of stars, the order of the universe is firmly controlled by the "Sky Alliance" and giant corporations. They monopolize the rare resource that determines everything - "Star Marrow", and divide the galaxy into the dazzling core world and the forgotten edge star field.
Ling Xiu, a planetary scavenger living on the abandoned mining planet "Hephaestus-IV", is the lowest "forgotten" of this era. He piloted the shabby spaceship "Rust" that he pieced together, searching for a glimmer of hope of survival among the wreckage of the ancient battlefield.
In order to repay an inescapable debt, he bet everything on a legendary "Shadow Ship" - a battleship from a previous civilization that has been lost for thousands of years. However, deep in the dead cabin, he did not find the legendary treasure, only a mysterious crystal that was integrated with the spacecraft.
When this crystal was integrated with the system of the "Rust", an unknown intelligence called "Star Map" awakened in his mind. It cannot provide weapons that will destroy the world, but it can allow him to see the "quantum echoes" of the past, analyze forgotten lost technologies, and foresee the fleeting future trajectory.
From this moment on, the gears of Ling Xiu's destiny began to turn. Relying on the wisdom gained from "scavenging", he repaired the spaceship, got rid of his pursuers, and broke out of the cage-like mineral star.
A rusty scalpel can also dissect the stars. A dilapidated scavenger ship will eventually sail to the sky. This is a legend that rises from the dust of the universe, picks up the forgotten legacy, and ultimately subverts the order of the star sea.
