With the shroud over the Shackleton Expanse gone, new frontiers await those lucky enough to get to them first. But not all frontiers should be examined.

Deep in the Expanse, hidden by the Shroud and the time it imposed on all travellers, lay the world of Leytan III. There the crews of the starships Atlantis and Republic have been dispatched to conduct Starfleet’s first indepth survey.

But what they find, perhaps shouldn’t be found.

If you gaze long into an abyss, the abyss also gazes into you.
Friedrich Nietzsche