Three centuries after humanity abandoned a dying Earth, civilization stretches across dozens of planets and artificial worlds.Humanity believes the great wars of the past are over.They are wrong.Twenty-four-year-old Kael Riven survives by stealing information from corporations and selling it to people who cannot afford the truth. He has never considered himself a hero. Heroes, in his experience, are simply people who have not yet been given enough reasons to become villains.Everything changes when Kael steals a mysterious data fragment from a government archive.The fragment contains only three words:ORION IS AWAKE.Within hours, people begin hunting him.The government's artificial intelligence, Astra, identifies Kael as a threat to human civilization. A mysterious woman named Lyra Voss claims the stolen data belongs to a civilization that disappeared thousands of years before humanity left Earth.And then Kael discovers something impossible.The message wasn't sent to Earth.It was sent to him.As Kael and a small group of fugitives cross forbidden regions of space, they uncover evidence that humanity's official history is a carefully constructed lie. The legendary Orion civilization may not have disappeared at all.It may have been waiting.And whatever is coming back has been watching humanity for centuries.