Synopsis
Silver is a bounty hunter on Grandiose, a newly discovered planet rich in resources, teeming with vibrant wildlife, and dotted with the ruins of a once-great civilization that mysteriously vanished, leaving their treasures behind. Among these relics are the Wretched Treasures—mask-like artifacts that grant their wearers incredible powers at a terrible cost. When Silver is hired for a new job, he discovers he’ll be working with two familiar faces.
The first is Gold, a former bounty hunting partner turned space pirate. Like Silver, Gold wears a Wretched Treasure of his own, but unlike Silver he has a penchant for greed. The second is Mercury, a robot of unknown origin, who, rather than stay under the control of the alchemists who discovered him, has chosen to become a bounty hunter himself.
Despite their fraught pasts and mutual distrust, the three men are promised great wealth if they can retrieve a valuable asset from a research organization on Grandiose. However, they soon learn that the asset they’re after may be worth far more than they were led to believe—and it might hold the key to unraveling the planet’s lost history.
As Silver confronts the ghosts of his own past, he realizes that treasures paid for in blood always come with a price—and the true cost may be higher than anyone expects.