Tessa Quinn volunteered to sacrifice everything for the betterment of humanity. Assigned to place a beacon in deep space... to expand warp travel for a future society. She left it all... she never thought how true that statement could be.
306 thousand years later... she is awoken from stasis by the Drift. They are an outcome of humanity, shaped by centuries in artificial environments, and as alien to her as she is to them.
She is now a living relic of a forgotten past.
And the galaxy has changed.