A hundred years before Jade Callahan’s mission began, there was Mimmi.

Discovered in a sealed vault aboard a derelict station drifting at the edge of known space, Mimmi appears to be a child—but he is anything but. Part alien, part something far older, he’s a forgotten remnant of Unity: a once-galactic collective of minds that fractured when Mimmi chose individuality over obedience.

Captain Silas Callahan and his crew bring Mimmi aboard their ship, the Dauntless V, unknowingly reigniting a conflict buried for centuries. Shadows twist. Crew vanish. And a presence stirs—Unity has remembered its missing piece.

As the Dauntless begins to rewrite itself, reality fractures. Mimmi is forced to confront what he once was and what he might become. But Unity is no longer the only force watching. Something older waits in the dark, and it doesn’t want Mimmi to return. It wants him to evolve.

Pursued across space and within his own mind, Mimmi faces impossible choices. Rejoin the collective he abandoned, accept the rising force that offers power without restraint—or remain fractured, choosing a future neither fully alien nor fully human.

This is the beginning of Mimmi’s journey. A war of self. A rebirth.

And somewhere, beyond the stars, something else awakens.