Holtz Mitsumi is desperate.Mitsumi gambled everything to find lost tech on the First Stellar Civilization's dead, shattered worlds. Massive riches were his if he won. He lost. Instead of wealth, he was saddled with a mysterious alien artifact that invaded his mind and instilled an iron compulsion to find its origin. But the artifact did not communicate with anyone else and appeared to be common manufactured diamond-as common as...