The last hope for a dying race is a dying hero.Min, a generational genius, is the Command Agent of the Journeycraft Starshine. After a long and unsuccessful mission into deep space, he has returned home to Uma to die. Upon his arrival, he finds the peaceful Umae on the edge of extinction as a barbaric enemy has re-emerged following a millennium of absence. As Min struggles with the realization of his own mortality, he must find a way to produce one last miracle. But in the twilight of a long career of service to others, what is he willing to risk in order to have the only thing he's ever really wanted for himself? And does he have enough time left to fully expose a grand deception as old as written history?