Emmett Atwater thought that participating in Babel's game would be easy: get the points, win the reward, and go home. It didn't take that long to realize the game was full of broken promises, each of them darker than the previous one. Now Emmett and the rest of the survivors of the Genesis spacecraft must reorganize and forge their own path in this new world to succeed in their mission of extracting the most powerful material in the universe, Nyxia.