They say that Earthlings are outside the hierarchies of this world.
They say that the forerunners have a great destiny—after all, it wasn’t for nothing that the lords of the Heavenly Throne transferred our ark across the abyss of time and space.
Here, into Unity—into the great Dyson sphere built around a black hole in place of a long-dead Sun. The heavenly masters are playing their mysterious games with us, whose purpose is to obtain the long-lost Source.
We can only guess what—or who—it was. We are only beginning to understand why it is being hunted so fiercely, and what power the one who obtains it will gain.
But the Hounds are already in our Circle; the Worms will come after them, and there is almost no time left to prepare.
I, Sigurd Morozov, colonist and pilot, the Ascendant and the True, must find those who can create the Source. And for that, I will have to leave my new home and step onto the Transparent Roads…