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It is the 31st Century, and humanity... is doomed. Rampant wars and heavy climate change have made Earth uninhabitable, and all the colonies in the solar system have been destroyed or cannot sustain a large enough population to ensure our survival. All seems lost when the last functioning space telescope detects a habitable world in the Barnard's Star system. From there, its a rush to get to the exoplanet and build a new home. 600 years later, the Noah's Ark, the colony vessel, finally arrived in orbit of their new home, Barnard's Prime (or New Terra for the more fanatical ones). The long journey has reshaped humanity, returning to the days when power and leadership were held by a single lineage. A new quasi-religious movement has popped up, called "The Mission". Landing on Barnard's Prime, the colonists get to work, but soon realise they're not the only intelligent life on the planet. Indeed, the native aliens, the Ra'kal, have built themselves up to a level of technology on par with the medieval era, and they seem to be able to control forces that defy all scientific and common belief. If that wasn't bad enough, Xander Helios, next (and only) in line for succession of leadership, has gone missing. And evidence shows that the natives have something to do with it. Meanwhile, in a Ra'kal academy, a scholar named Mel'cit is struggling to perform any groundbreaking research or make any new discoveries. With her back agains the wall, she turns to the only place that might save her from the shame from her peers and the ruin of her reputation as a scholar, the frontier. There, she encounters a being who calls himself, Xander Helios? Tensions run high between the two peoples. One, a technologically advanced juggernaut that will stop at nothing to build their new home. Another, capable of performing feats that affronts all conventional scientific wisdom.