Gabriel Williamson was a near-broken man by the time he reached the age of forty-five. That was until he received the oppurtunity to take one last trip to the Eternal; the space station he had spent much of his life dreaming up. Upon arrival, he discovers that most of the oxygen-deprived crew is on the brink of death, and meets and entity that he believes may hold the key not only to his existence, but the very purpose of humanity.