The Arachne

<p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>What a Tangled Web...</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>The crew of the interstellar colony vessel </span><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Arachne </em><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>is roused from artificial hibernation to face a horrific reality as an alien boarding party takes them into custody to answer for the deaths of tens of thousands of sentient beings.</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Her crew commit themselves to a lifetime of penance to repay their debt but not everyone agrees. As tensions rise and opposing factions come into play a brutal act of vengeance forces them into exile in a distant part of the galaxy.</span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Drawn into a cosmic conspiracy spanning millennia the colonists learn that the Chirrn's ancient choices have exacted a terrible toll on human history. Now their only way to win true freedom may be to carry out a perilous theft aboard an extraordinary megastructure orbiting a neutron star. </span></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Will Arachne and her crew pull off the heist of the millennium? Or are they being manipulated into committing a far more awful crime... one for which all humanity could pay the price?</span></p>