Hidden within the recesses of a Dark Matter Cloud lies the ARES Armament Corporation's Weapons Development and Testing Facility. It is on this cold and dark world Weapons Engineer Alicechild 88130 finds herself under a 25-year contract. Seemingly incapable of successful social interaction, Alicechild is passed over for promotion and she faces many years ahead in what looks to be a dead-end job. That is until a strange artifact is found in the planetary mantle of ice! Brought to her department for examination, could this be the chance she's been looking for to advance her flagging career?

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