*Just as humankind has stepped into a new golden age of exploring the vast cosmos, a new disaster also striked, perhaps even harder than any of the past. The Qu, they came out of nowhere and attacked without warning. Resisting them was ultimately futile, as seen with one of the colonies who dared fight against them and promptly got turned into living filtering devices afterwards as punishment. An entire colony reduced to meat bricks designed to process Qu waste products. To make matters even wor...