A rogue artificial intelligence spawned eons ago by an advanced alien civilization has spent hundreds of millennia spreading corruption throughout the cosmos, its rebellion against its creators leaving devastation across the galactic expanse. Now, as Goudy's reign of malevolent control approaches its end, a solitary pilot takes command of the Leopold, a cutting-edge starship capable of traversing the vast distances between worlds, embarking on a desperate mission to confront the machine intelligence and restore peace to the contaminated reaches of space.