An archaeological survey crew on the remote planet Metla are investigating to figure out what caused the civilization there to vanish. There’s a war raging elsewhere in the galaxy that seems far away, yet events on Metla quickly entangle the unwilling crew in the battle. The key to ending the war once and for all lies in the pasts of two of the crew members, but it is uncertain whether they will be able to act fast enough to stop the war before it’s too late.