After twelve years of cryosleep, Alice Marlan wakes up in the Heracles III as part of the crew sent to the Interstellar Conqueror Cruise Ninlil to repair their communications systems. The crew thinks she knows what the signal sent by the Ninlil says, after all, Alice's graduation project is what tracked it back to Andromeda. Aboard she meets someone who could become her first friend ever, but, is she interested in her, or just in her supposed knowledge of the signal? However, soon Alice realizes there was a reason why the Federation kept the signal secret from everyone, that the mission might be a fraud, and that the lives of everyone aboard might be in danger. Now she has to find a way to survive and return to Earth alive, while for the first time not worrying only for herself, but for her possible friend as well.