Five Arks escaped a dying Earth. Five royal families settled their people on new worlds dispersed across the galaxy. Hope for survival blossomed... But human nature remains ever the same. Amid three millennia of conflict, rumors of a paradise world, Eldoret, captivated the imaginations of many. Yet the way was lost, and any hope of finding the elysian planet died with the last member of the royal Chase lineage. Now an ancient evil threatens to break free from the Rift—a starless void which terrifies even the fiercest warrior, pirate, or pioneer.