We managed to break free from the temporal-gravitational anomaly. It seems we avoided death by the reverse Chrono-flow. But where did we end up now? War-ravaged and abandoned star systems. Habitable planets where once civilizations existed were home to intelligent life—yet they were bombarded by comet and asteroid debris, which led to climate change and destroyed those civilizations. Fyodor needs to find his place, his new home, in this huge unknown galaxy—one that’s also a bit anomalous.