In 2204, humanity is expanding into the wider galaxy in leaps and bounds. Every place on Earth, every distant planet humankind has settled, is now merely a step away from any other. And all seems wonderful, until a crashed alien spaceship of unknown origin is found on a newly located world 89 light-years from Earth, carrying a cargo as strange as it is horrifying. To assess the potential of the threat a high-powered team is dispatched to investigate. But one of them may not be all they seem.