Prologue

There are ARKs.

The ARK is a spaceship, a bubble.

A bubble of salvation.

Hundreds of species, in one bubble.

An entire ecosystem, completely fabricated.

But systems are bound to fail.

What will happen when the system spirals out of control?

Systems flourish on the edge of chaos.

Too close to the center, it will be idle, and the system will fall.

Too close to the edge, it will fall in.

Both result in system collapse.

This specific system is based on a fabricated system, completely… artificial.

It isn't a natural system.

But an artificial system.

With no experience holding itself up.

No equilibrium system.

Gone.