A couple thousand years after humans have fled earth and her system a young man joins a mining company. He had never lived with humans himself having been raised in an orphanage. He has to learn to deal with the universe's opinion of humans as he learns his new job, mining resources on one of the 'lost' worlds. Humans had fled Earth due to a inbound Rouge planet to the Sol system, which destroys the jump gate that ships used to fly between worlds. Very few ships traverse space without them at this stage in universal history, any world not in the system is considered 'lost'. Earth is now a myth human parents tell their children, maybe one day someone may 'stumble upon the planet once again.