Worldview

Every data point on Kepler-942c was perfect, too good to be true. Seven hours after arrival, the advance team began to feel something was wrong—not that anything was dangerous, but that everything was too right.

In the year 2297 AD, humanity's first interstellar colony ship, the Daedalus, reached Kepler-942c, 41 light-years away. The seed of an entire civilization, packed into a single vessel.