In the year 2084, a deep-space salvage crew recovers a tiny, unlabeled canister marked only as . Unlike the massive fusion cores they usually haul, this object is no bigger than a marble.
: As the scout prepares the laser drill, Elara must decide: save her crew from poverty by handing over the "battery," or risk a mutiny to return O-17 to the peaceful nebula where it belongs. How to Turn Your MP4 into a Story Video o17_small.mp4
: A corporate scout on board wants to "crack" O-17 to harvest its energy, which could power a city for a century. Elara, however, discovers that the light pulses are actually a complex language—a distress signal from a civilization that shrank itself to survive a supernova. In the year 2084, a deep-space salvage crew