SciFiEchoes
When the crew of the deep space mining vessel Hyperion discovers a perfect geometric artifact inside an asteroid, they have no idea they've just encountered humanity's greatest threat-and possibly its salvation.
Dr. Eliza Chen and her fellow scientists watch in growing horror as the dodecahedron artifact begins to influence their ship, their minds, and eventually their bodies. First come the impossibly vivid dreams of home. Then personal items appear where they shouldn't be. As the mysterious effects escalate, the crew discovers duplicate versions of themselves growing in hidden chambers throughout the ship.
But the terrifying truth is far more complex than invasion. Half the crew falls ill with a deadly bacterial infection, while the others remain mysteriously immune. When they intercept a transmission from Earth revealing a global pandemic has already begun, they realize the artifact wasn't sent to destroy humanity-it's trying to save it by evolving those who can withstand the coming plague.
As the ship breaks down around them, the crew must make an impossible choice: resist the transformation and maintain their human identity, or embrace evolution and return to Earth as something both less and more than human.
A sci-fi horror exploration of identity, evolution, and what it truly means to be human in the face of extinction.
#ScienceFiction #Horror #FirstContact #SpaceHorror #Pandemic #Evolution