The airlock hissed like a promise broken.
Dr. Lila Voss stared at the corpse drifting in Zero-Sector—a maintenance worker, his suit punctured by a drill bit stamped with her initials.
Stranded on asteroid KX-9, oxygen dwindling, and trust in short supply, Lila fights to keep the colony alive while dodging accusations of sabotage. But when she discovers the truth—her research is the key to a ruthless CEO’s plan to bankrupt the station—survival becomes more than a matter of air.
Forced into an uneasy alliance with Kiran Sato, a corporate spy sent to steal her work, Lila navigates malfunctioning AI, a traitor hidden among the crew, and a desperate race against time. Every system is failing. Every choice carries a cost.
In the final, heart-stopping moment, Lila makes an irreversible decision. She reroutes a mining laser, obliterating the CEO’s escape ship and saving the colony—at the price of her own freedom.
As the dust settles, her last broadcast echoes through the cosmos, survival blueprints encoded in light.
“Build better than we did.”