Nine hundred million years after the fall of the Stellar Conclave, a legendary soldier awakens beneath the shadow of a dying star.Alcatraz, a man encased in machine, his consciousness preserved in an ancient Fiction Processor, emerges into a world devoured by entropy and silence. His heart, a living organ encased in steel, pumps Darkcell compound through a forgotten system called CardioCore, a power no longer understood by the galaxy that remains.