The Cartographers Legacy: Burden of Stewardship

No longer passive cartographers charting a dying cosmos, the crew of the ISS Solaris have become the active "gardeners" of the Perseus Frontier, wielding a twelve-billion-year-old alien inheritance to nurse infant suns to life. But humanity has never been famous for its restraint. Desperate for power, Earth's resource-starved inner colonies dispatch the Prometheus Consortium and the Titan Vanguard-a multi-kilometer weaponized dreadnought built to strip-mine the ancient stellar nurseries for corporate profit.
While a tense diplomatic standoff unfolds, a secret expedition into the uncharted dark of Sector Ten reveals a horrifying reality: a shattered "Dead Garden" where stars were forcefully collapsed into micro-black holes to harvest dark energy. Humanity has stumbled straight into the tracking wake of The Blight-an ancient entropic force determined to freeze the universe into absolute, unbroken silence.
When reckless corporate drilling punctures the mantle and awakens this space-bending entity, a cascading wave of non-Euclidean decay threatens to erase both ships from existence. To survive the winter of the cosmos, bitter rivals must unite, the ledger of profit must be burned, and humanity must find absolute humility before the infinite dark.