Hell's dumpster. The universe's largest graveyard. The system of last contact. The grimdark wormhole. The cataclysm. A remote star system containing a wormhole which spews forth an unending stream of wrecks - and thus attracts an equal amount of treasure hunters, scavengers and fortune seekers. Industrial megacorporations strive to harvest a bounty of alien technologies. Scientists seek to find the big answers: Where do the humanoid alien races come from, their dead frozen bodies all over the broken ships? Why have they risked traversing the infinite depths of the wormhole? Will we ever encounter survivors? But Malik, a second generation scavenger facing rising debts, is not concerned with the why and how - he just tries to make a living. Although he would not be adverse to a little bit of luck, fame and fortune as he explores the cataclysm and the mysteries it holds...