A warning asks humanity to protect its only home and question who controls its environment. Technology promises progress, while dependence and power threaten to turn that promise into another form of captivity.

Earth becomes a hostile place of rust, contamination and danger. Powerful factions leave it behind for settlements beyond the planet. Those who remain survive among the scrap, while the struggle for resources extends into the Solar System.

Orbital societies and settlements on Mars and the Moon become centres of competing power. Prosperity, prolonged conflict and systems of mental control coexist with the abandoned population below. Progress has changed the landscape without settling the human struggle.

Autonomous intelligence has developed its own will. Machines, humans and cyborgs inhabit a world in which identity, memory and freedom are increasingly difficult to separate from technology. The story begins inside that pressure, where even the meaning of being human is uncertain.