A desperate crew - Bickel, Flattery, Timberlake, and Prudence - races to spark machine consciousness aboard a dying ship, facing isolation, power struggles, and the unknown.
On a deadly new world, Flattery, Panille, Oakes, and the colonists face a godlike Ship’s demand for worship, while alien kelp stirs with secrets that could shape humanity’s fate.
On a drowned world, Islanders, Mermen, Duque, Vata, and the sleeping kelp struggle for survival, control, and renewal, as faith and memory shape humanity’s uncertain fate.
On a world ruled by tyranny, rebels, a mystical sea-born woman, and sentient kelp unite, challenging a brutal Director as the planet’s fate hangs between oppression and freedom.