Jeff Ledford

Starship Dauntless: The Replicate & Starship Dauntless: Replication Protocol - The combined set. In Starship Dauntless: The Replicate, They scanned the anomaly. The anomaly scanned them back. On a routine patrol along the outer rim, the starship Dauntless encounters an impossible phenomenon: a drifting cloud of unknown origin, pulsing with alien energy. Moments after investigating it, reality fractures.
In Starship Dauntless: Replication Protocol, two weeks after a catastrophic encounter with a mysterious quantum "cloud, " the starship Dauntless is docked above Earth for repairs. The crisis appears contained. The alien construct was destroyed. The crew survived. Unknown to them, a part of the cloud entity survived in their ship's core after the encounter.