On a volcanic planet a thousand light years away, a team of scientific investigators climb into an opening on the side of a hill after detecting an odd energy reading and discover the very cradle of humankind. It is a momentous find and sheds light on some of the most bizarre archaeological questions. They also come across a newly emerged creature called a Platnios with only one hundred years of evolution. It is a creature that breeds so fast and learns with lightning speed that it makes their timely historic find turn into a struggle for interstellar preservation.
Twenty years before, a scientific expedition blasts off from earth to investigate a faint digital glitch received by a satellite on a routine orbit above one of Neptune’s moons. They uncover sixteen human remains dating back to the mid-nineteenth century. Earth’s evolutionary beginnings collapse and hysteria dominates the scientific world but the connection is in another solar system a thousand light years away.
