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"Two years too late. Two hundred years too many."
During a routine survey mission, the USS Proteus detects a faint distress signal emanating from a pre-warp civilization's homeworld. Investigation reveals an impossible discovery: a 260-year-old Earth sleeper ship that departed in 1999—decades before First Contact—with someone still alive in cryogenic suspension.
As the clock ticks down on the failing cryo-system, the crew discovers the crashed vessel has become the center of the natives' entire civilization, worshipped as a sacred temple to gods who came from the sky. With lives hanging in the balance and the Prime Directive already catastrophically violated, the crew must navigate an impossible choice: save a lost soul from humanity's past, or protect a culture built on a beautiful lie.
For the young crew of the Proteus, this first major crisis will test everything they believe about duty, compassion, and the cost of doing what's right when there are no good options. |
