Originally posted as a set of Twitter threads about your attempt to rescue your friend from a hive of brainwashed drones… and the aftermath. Collected here for your reading pleasure.

The promised future has arrived. Mankind has outgrown old Terra and lives peacefully among the stars. But when junior engineer Kyra Warner of the TSS Argo picks up the wrong item from an alien planet, she soon finds out that not everything in this universe is willing to coexist.

Heidi Moore awakes to find herself in the cell after being abducted by opportunistic drones seeking to develop their proto-Hive. She resolves to fight back until the bitter end.

Lilith Yew, powerful leader of the Martian colonization movement, faces off against the pernicious influence of the rival Hive colony of Slave Mistress Isis Pines.