The third in PULSAR’s prequel series. Two thousand years had passed since the Allusion had visited the Earth. War in the Virgo Cluster threatened to eliminate everything that was good and pure in the galaxy. Unbeknownst to oblivious humans, they would have been consumed had a certain form of good not prevailed over evil. The dark forces that were at work replaced the necessary for the urgent which explained the long period of silence between the visits.
Surviving the onslaught, a third ship, the Iolite, finally enters the solar system of the only known paradise planet that could save their world. Two thousand years was all that remained. If their world could not successfully prepare the Earth in that time, their constellation would become a black hole. The crew was down to a speck of time against the backdrop of the universe.
Before reaching Earth, five visitors aboard the Iolite have a mind altering experience while making the precarious journey across the universe. After surviving the effects of a dimensional shift during their fold, they come to realize they don't even know why they are there. Having to rely on artificial intelligence to remind them, their long range scans of Earth find evidence of two stranded spacecraft from their own world, the Mesolite and the Allusion. Hallucinations, coupled with learning that they will never again go home, spawns contempt for the operation. As they discover more about their mission and the dire circumstances facing their own planet, a fractured pavlei set out to find a secure a place for the Violet Stone. They must also find a way to link Earth’s civilizations so that the human process of technological discovery can continue to accelerate and can one day assist them with their harvest. Beyond hope, nothing else is left.