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In the twenty-third century, when humanity learned to travel interstellar distances within weeks instead of decades or centuries, we found that intelligent life had once flourished throughout our galaxy. We discovered cities, space stations,star-faring vessels, and wondrous artifacts produced by science beyond human comprehension.
But those cities were silent. Those ships and habitats were vacant, and those impossible devices had been dormant for millennia. Thousands of alien civilizations had occupied the stars of our night sky, and all of them were now extinct.
The World Council established the Unknown to investigate these ghost planets and to determine what had happened to their former inhabitants. In some cases, the causes of these extinctions were tragic but understandable — war, or plague, or environmental collapse. The Corps refers to these catastrophes as Omega Events.
But on many of those distant worlds, the sudden disappearance of the inhabitants left no trace of violence or disaster. The scientists of the Corps believe these extinctions were caused by the same unknown influence, repeated over and over across the course of eons. They labeled this the Sigma Event.
The truth behind this mystery may determine humanity’s survival. If the Sigma Event has silenced all other forms of intelligence in our galaxy, will it eventually extinguish human life as well? How much time remains? Centuries?Months? Hours?
The Corps hopes that understanding the Sigma Event may help us to escape it. Far off in the galaxy, Corps explorers and scientists search through the abandoned relics of inhuman beings, hunting for answers. They must survive hostile environments, decipher ancient clues, and confront the miraculous and terrifying products of transcendent technology.
If they fail, our Earth and all the worlds we call home may become the next ghost planets.