The Nur Albasharia convoy of arkships Jibril and Mika’il arrive at Qurra system to find that the habitable world designated for the new colony has changed over the course of the journey and is now extremely hostile to human life. With failing systems aboard the arkships and without the capability of bringing the convoy’s leadership out of stasis without an assured survival plan, the captain and crew decide to send a mission to the surface of the planet to investigate any possibility of habitability.