Humanity has slipped the confines of Earth and the local cluster to explore the Milky Way. Their foothold has expanded thousands of light-years into deep space, providing them with a plethora of worlds to colonize and resources to exploit. However, intelligent alien life has yet to show itself. That changes when Professor Isobel Hart and her protégé, Malcolm Everett, discover strange readings coming from LHS 3420. What was an unremarkable, dead system comprised of a brown dwarf now hints at something unexpected: a repeating signature that resembles a signal.