Dust

Arik and Esaul are mining for hydrogen from asteroids in a far away solar system. Their mission is the result of an effort spanning generations to bring Earth back to what it used to be before the nation that controlled the global economy abandoned Earth, and left the rest of the population with famine and mortality to search for a new planet to live on.

It's been ages since any contact from the global superpower and after Arik and Esaul's latest hydrogen yield, they find what they believe to be something left over from the nation that abandoned Earth. Arik is curious to investigate while Esaul insists they stick to their mission.