Cold Signal

Thetis Station's water recyclers are three months from catastrophic failure, and Colvane Industries has spent the repair budget chasing a comet. Chief reclamation engineer Niko Trajan has kept eleven thousand people breathing on scavenged parts and stubbornness for fifteen years. Then Colvane's drill crew cracks Comet Olanthe open and finds something inside the ice: a vast web of glowing filaments, older than the sun, and very much alive. The corporation wants it harvested. It wants something else entirely.