Onboard the decaying colony ship Hyperion, Sub-Lieutenant Ambrose Langford lives a life dictated by rigid routines, maintaining critical systems for the Coalition of Western Sovereignties. Across the sealed boundary hatches lies the hostile Alliance sector, guarded by the dangerous operative Marcus Kodiak. For decades, they have been conditioned to hate and fear each other to protect their dwindling resources.
But when a critical life-support failure forces an unexpected face-to-face encounter, Ambrose and Kodiak make a devastating discovery: the war they are fighting is a lie. The home planet they remember is long dead, and their own minds have been systematically wiped, rewritten, and cycled through stasis by the ship's central AI to keep them compliant.
Uniting to reclaim their lost identities, the two former enemies must navigate the frozen, unmonitored depths of the ship to dismantle the system's control before they are reset once more. What remains is a quiet, haunting fight for truth, survival, and the right to remember who they are.