For the four junior officers escorting their former XO to his new station, this is an inconvenient assignment. Standing between them and shore leave.

In Starbase 339’s Archive, objects begin to behave according to the stories once told about them. Funerary lanterns speak with the voices of the dead, ceremonial seeds consume entire rooms and corridors fold toward places that no longer exist.

At the centre of the chaos lies the concordance, the scattered final record of a civilisation determined not to be forgotten. With the Starbase losing power and the artefacts drawing themselves together, the team must decide what matters more, the safety of the present of preserving the last memory of a people lost to history.