In 2246, thousands of colonists left a dying Earth on a generation ship bound for a planet 14 light-years away. An uncharted dark exoplanet in the Oort Cloud knocked them off course and consumed too much of their fuel to recover. The leadership redirected to a five-planet system called Adalia — none of the planets habitable, but an asteroid belt with roughly a quarter-million large rocks proved workable. Over the following generations, pioneers established mines, factories, and markets across the belt. Then stratification, rivalry, and pirates arrived. The Adalia system is shrinking. Danger now lurks in the darkness of space, and not everyone will make it.