Declan Frost is a twenty-five-year-old captain in the Grand Vanguards of Grand Orca City, a growing society in the wastes of Earth after a viral apocalypse. Frost and his compatriots are responsible for recovering lost technology-the powerful technological relics lost to antiquity-as well as fighting mutated wildlife and rogue human anarchists in the lost regions that surround the city-state. An unexpected performance by a traveling dance group and their clandestine request for aid set him and five others on a journey to recover the mysterious Aether Nova before it can fall into the hands of the city of Vrespiera. Together, the ragtag band of performers and soldiers take on deadly mutants, murderous rogues, and enemy agents in their quest to unlock the secrets of the Aether Nova, traveling across the globe to learn its purpose and activate the beacon that will bring it forth. When they realize that their enemy has sent an assassin to track their progress, the adventurers are locked in a battle against time. Can they reach the Aether Nova beacon and recover the powerful relic before the Vrespieran army can use it to further their vile agenda?