Circuit, Break
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"The Gate! The Gate's been shut off!" Someone cried over the crowd. Suddenly, panic ripped through the atmosphere.
"My home is over there!" A voice shouted.
"How will I see my family again?" More words began to pile atop the first, and suddenly, mass hysteria took hold.
The Gates have been connecting galaxies for hundreds of years, giving access to all the Universe has to offer. Industry expanded, trade erupted from a single solar system, and Earth was centered in the midst of it all.
Suddenly, the Gates start shutting down, and no one knows why. Travel takes too long, and the without the Gates, races from across the Universe are stuck on Earth.
The fate of the galaxies is suddenly placed in the hands of a diverse, chaotic group of engineers, brought together only by an intergalactic crisis.
Now with the balance of many worlds at stake, it is up to them to fix the problem and bring normality back to people.
But can they learn to work in harmony and accept their differences, or will the galaxies be plunged into darkness?
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