Once upon a time on the University Planet of Aporia there lived a pampered and prim faun obsessed with space. With few friends, isolating interests and an uncaring attitude towards worldly affairs Eros Mullion stood in contrast against the zeitgeist of lazy debauchery which then permeated every aspect of that society. When her classmates made fun of her, she studied. When they partied, she worked. When they slept, she traveled to Isoscele plains and gazed at night skies untouched by Man's light. And when her peers were preparing for their impending graduation into an adult life of boredom, she approached the Grand Faculty of Space with a request to perform scientific work off-world.
Because there was always a shortage of people foolish, reckless or brave enough to leave the idyllic planet, Mullion suddenly found herself on an asteroid orbiting a rimworld in a neighboring star system with only basic supplies, a habpod and an Archean tree which the Faculty has been interested in studying for a long time. Feeling a foreboding sense of space malaise, she took a few deep breaths and stepped outside...