Prologue
The deep-space mining ship SS Devourer drifts silently through the void. For its crew of five, the routine has been the same for years: they scour dead planets and abandoned space stations, harvesting precious resources that sustain the dwindling human colonies scattered across the galaxy. But this time, everything changed on a barren world known only as PX-99.
There, they found something that wasn’t meant to be found—something that corrupted their reality and infected their minds. And it took hold of one man: Captain Patrick “Pac” Mason.