Two centuries ago, the first settlers of Peele Station vanished without a trace. Along with them, a god went silent.
Mainard Edelfri is too clean for a man with a dishonourable discharge. A washed-up surgeon, he arrives at the Jovian Hive's most desolate outpost with a hidden mission: identify the necrotic tissue in Peele Station.
But Peele is a graveyard of corporate greed. The Dekatos Corporation hoards what little is left, while thousands of indentured miners rot in a sprawling underground slum, policed by shock collars and lead-choked air.
Caught between ruthless mercenaries and a brutal local gang, Mainard is put to the ultimate test. When he crosses paths with a fierce, cybernetic runaway from Luna, his unwavering loyalty to the Hive begins to fracture. To survive Peele Station, he is forced to make an impossible choice: complete his mission for the synthetic god that saved him, or risk everything for a woman he just met.