The U.H.C. London, a shining testament to human warfighting potential and the latest marvel of the United Human Confederacy, embarks on its first deployment with high hopes and advanced technology. Unbeknownst to its crew, this seemingly innocent scientific expedition to the distant planet Yadvek will inadvertently awaken a cosmic horror. As they investigate reports of precursor technology at a research facility, they unwittingly trigger a distress beacon that attracts a relentless hive mind of genocidal aliens, hellbent on purging the universe of what they deem "unworthy" species. In a desperate bid to protect the facility’s scientists and their families, the crew of the London successfully evacuates them. However, during the skin of the teeth escape from the overwhelming alien threat, they make an emergency jump space translation that shatters their perception of reality, knocking them all unconscious. Upon regaining consciousness, the crew finds themselves adrift in an unmapped star system, in a decaying orbit above a habitable world teeming with life. As they assess their surroundings and the potential dangers that lurk within this new environment following a crash landing on the planet, they must navigate through the aftermath of their ordeal while grappling with the impending threat of the alien hive mind that’s still out there.