On an ordinary day, something breaks. A small group of people experience a sudden, unexplained shift — abilities that should not exist, emerging without warning or instruction. There are no costumes. No explanations. No guarantees. As the world continues on unaware, each person is left alone with the same question: What does power mean when no one tells you how to use it — or what it will cost?

Foreboding and sinister secrets creep quietly into the now as consequences of actions millennia old unfurl. Meanwhile, the troubles of the future weigh so heavily that they threaten to crush everything beneath them. A wave of change rides through the universe that will touch all of space and time. A new era this way comes and with it; untold mystery and danger. In one night the world will be changed forever as plans are made behind closed doors, visitors arrive from places unknown and two young men are set on a path toward a destiny far greater than either of them could ever imagine.

Claire is a 30-something teacher twice abducted-- first by aliens, and then by a clandestine government agency bent on harnessing Claire’s altered biology. Doc Marcee is a retired radio host, wary of the mysterious government base nearby and its relentless influx of unmarked vans at all hours. When their paths intertwine on the search for answers, it will change them, and everyone, forever.

The half-breed son of an extraterrestrial who masqueraded as human for decades witnesses his father's death after saving a human child—a selfless act that resulted in the exposure of his father's alien physiology. Tortured by the loss, Kent spends 13 years struggling to pick up the pieces until his father's murder is put into question by a mysterious figure with claims that they can get him back. Driven to uncover the circumstances surrounding his father's murder, Kent is dropped into a genetics cold war conspiracy & forced to face a twisted ghost from his past that challenges his humanity.

Commander Jeff Harper and pilot Morgan Swanie witness Earth’s sudden destruction during what should have been a routine return mission. With communications lost and their ship damaged, escape is their only option. Stranded in deep space, grief and survival force them to rely on each other as they flee into the unknown—unaware that their flight has set them on a path that will change the fate of humanity forever.

Some endings don’t take. On Virel, history moves forward even when it is wrong. Wars conclude without resolving what they began. Verdicts are passed that settle nothing. Peace exists while the past continues to demand response. These failures leave scars in reality. From them, pressure accumulates. When pressure grows too great, it binds to people who remain too close to the unfinished event. They are not chosen. They are not rewarded. They persist because reality requires an anchor. They become Ascendants. Each Ascendant embodies a different response to pressure. Resolution. Delay. Endurance. Escalation. Refusal. None are complete. All create cost. When multiple Ascendants bind to the same scar, the world cannot support them all. Their incompatible answers force a Trial. Conflict is not ambition or ideology. It is how reality simplifies a system that can no longer hold. Victory does not mean being right. It means inheriting the unfinished event and the consequences that follow. This is not a story about heroes or villains. It is a record of what happens when endings fail and someone is forced to carry the weight instead. The Trial is over.