For five years, Vesper Station stood as humanity's fragile triumph in deep space, a self-sustaining colony thriving beneath the black, windswept skies of Nacre. Four hundred settlers built lives, raised families, and carved a future out of the cold frontier. Then the sky went dark. Arriving without warning, the Pale Fleet locks into orbit, severing all contact with Earth before descending like ghosts. These are not raiders seeking supplies or ransom. They are methodical, relentless predators executing a clinical harvest. Armed with chilling precision, the invaders herd the colonists like livestock, turning domes into slaughterhouses and corridors into butcher's blocks. As power grids collapse, Security Chief Mara Venn rallies a desperate band of survivors through failing emergency shelters, claustrophobic service tunnels, and the lethal alien wasteland outside. Outmatched and completely isolated, Mara's mission shifts from survival to something fiercer: holding the line long enough to broadcast a final warning into the void. Because the hunt will not end with Nacre. And in the deep dark between the stars, the Pale Fleet is already calculating its next jump.