Kepler Wastes Scavengers

The year is 2347. Earth, as you knew it, is a shimmering, toxic memory. Fleeing ecological collapse, humanity scattered across the Kepler-186f system, establishing fragile colonies on its five habitable planets. You are a Scavenger, born and raised on the rusting, orbital platform known as The Foundry. Your life is a constant gamble, a desperate hunt for salvage from derelict ships and forgotten settlements. Forget romantic notions of space exploration. Your days are filled with the whirring of your aging mag-boots, the crackling static of your scavenged comms unit, and the ever-present fear of oxygen depletion. Corporate giants, descendants of the very companies that poisoned Earth, now control the most resource-rich territories. They see you as nothing more than space rats, disposable labor to be exploited and discarded. But you're tougher than they think. You're smarter. You've seen things out in the black, things that would make a Corvus exec choke on their nutrient paste. Whispers circulate among the Scavengers - rumors of ancient technologies hidden in the ruins of a Pre-Collapse civilization, relics with the power to break the corporate stranglehold. Your name is Kai, and you've just stumbled upon something… different. Deep within the hull of a derelict transport, choked with space dust and riddled with radiation leaks, you found it: a data core, pulsing with a strange energy, containing what appears to be the consciousness of someone… or something… that predates human spaceflight. Now, Corvus Security is breathing down your neck. Rival Scavenger crews are closing in, their eyes gleaming with greed. The very fabric of your existence is about to unravel. Welcome to the Kepler Wastes. Survival isn't guaranteed. Trust is a luxury you can't afford. And the future of humanity might just rest on your shoulders, whether you like it or not. Gear up, Scavenger. The clock is ticking.