Only one colony can survive. Kit will make sure it's hers, no matter the cost. Director Kit's rescue mission should be simple: deliver supplies, revive frozen colonists, claim salvage rights. But Ravana's leader, Garrick Holt, sees Kit's crew as something less than human: constructs sent by a corrupted AI to steal his world. As Kit fights for a path that keeps everyone alive, she discovers Garrick's lies hide a truth more terrible than failure: what really killed the Ravana colony wasn't an X-ray burst. Kit must unite two incompatible colonies before their mutual suspicion destroys them. In the end, the price of survival may be everything that makes her human.