In the 24th century, Earth dispatches a ship built inside an asteroid to discover the fate of human colonies established two centuries earlier.
In the 22nd century, in a time of climatic and economic chaos, Earth's mega-corporations funded asteroid colony ships and sent them to distant solar systems to establish new colonies. In the 24th century, after a century and more of global war and recovery, a call for help is heard from one of them, the first news Earth has had since the colony ships left. Earthgov decides to find out what has happened to some of the colonies. The last remaining asteroid ship is fitted out, and sent on a thousand year mission. No one knows what is out there, and the only thing the commander and crew can be certain of is that space is vast, dangerous, and more mysterious than can be imagined.