Kepler's Grave Legacy

The year is 2742. Earth is a memory, a faded blue marble in the holodisks of museums. Humanity, scattered across the Kepler-186f system, clings to life amongst a patchwork of terraformed planets and orbiting habitats. You are Anya Sharma, a scavenger on the fringe world of Cygnus Prime, a planet choked by perpetual twilight and the rusted skeletons of colossal mining rigs. Your days are spent sifting through the scrap heaps of the "Grave," a desolate expanse where the dreams of the original colonists were buried alongside their failures. You scour for anything of value – rare metals, working circuits, pre-Collapse tech – to sell to the ever-demanding Consortium, the ruling power that governs these star systems with an iron fist and a hunger for resources. Life is hard. The air is thin, the food is synthetic, and the whispers of the "Reclamation" – a shadowy resistance group fighting against the Consortium's exploitation – grow louder with each passing cycle. You try to stay out of it, focus on survival. But survival comes at a cost. Today, however, is different. While dismantling a particularly stubborn piece of ancient machinery, you stumble upon something... unexpected. Not another busted fusion core or a handful of worthless credits. This is a data cache, almost perfectly preserved, containing schematics, research notes, and a cryptic message that throws everything you thought you knew about the Collapse into question. This data could be your ticket off Cygnus Prime. It could buy you a life of luxury, or at least, a life less suffocating. But it could also paint a target on your back. The Consortium will stop at nothing to silence anyone who threatens their control. The Reclamation will want to exploit this information for their own purposes. And whispers tell of something even darker, something ancient, that lies dormant beneath the surface of Cygnus Prime, stirred by the discovery of the cache. You stand at a crossroads, Anya. The fate of the Kepler-186f system, perhaps even the fate of humanity, hangs in the balance. What will you do with this knowledge? Who will you trust? And are you ready to face the consequences of your choices? The Grave has given you a gift, but it may just be your death warrant. Your journey begins now.