The Authority calls them assets. Bobby Smith knows better.
In the lunar corridors, living ships are being hunted, registered, and stripped of their cores under the clean language of recovery. When Lyra arrives with stolen proof and a route to the original tear in the sky, Bobby, Echo, Flux, Inez, Carl, and a wounded remnant of independent ships have only one chance left: cross the old road before the Authority seals it forever.
But the passage beyond the tear is not empty. Ancient ruins are waiting. Master Wan's hidden markers are beginning to wake. And every ship that survives the crossing must answer a harder question than escape:
Who gets to own what is alive?
Beyond the known roads, survival is no longer enough. The remnant must decide what kind of future it will build-and what kind of road it will leave behind.