On a lonely world in an old and renewing cosmos, one young stargazing explorer named Zea encounters the chance she has dreamed of: a crashed spaceship offers an opportunity to explore the stars! To answer her calling, Zea must leave her home, and Ouy, her adoptive brother, in the company of otherworldly figures: a protector named Ph’Thorey’yn and a metallic contingent of otherworldly nemeses, the Spikelings.