Echo One awakens in an unfamiliar room, on a distant planet in the Iota Tauri planetary system. What awaits him is a web of mystery and madness, laid out in the aftermath of a terrible event. Will Echo be able to escape what has befallen the colonies, or will he be consumed as well?... Embark on a thrilling journey in this Sci-Fi novella, and join its eponymous protagonist on as he unravels the secrets of his strangely unfamiliar surroundings. After Echo awakens from stasis on the planet Markan, he witnesses the aftermath of an event that has left the colony in a derelict state. All he has is a potential suspect, in the form of Dr. Tanero King, the person who started the colonization effort. After a series of events leads Echo One to another colony on the moon Corvus, the details of what King has set in motion become even grimmer. A glimmer of hope manifests in the form of another survivor, but their journey is not without hardships. All they know is that they must reach their flagship, the "Nascent Dynamo", in order to discover the source of King's madness. Their arrival on the Nascent Dynamo provides Echo One with answers, just not the ones he expected...