Carried across the long dark, and what survives.

A storm is coming that will make Earth uninhabitable, and the window to get off the planet is measured in hours, not years. At least, that's the official account. The Manifest follows the last desperate hours before a ship built for a one-way voyage to a new star is forced into service as humanity's only way out.

What's saved in those hours becomes the seed of everything that follows: the knowledge, the culture, and the generations who keep the voyage alive across a crossing that outlasts any single lifetime. Every choice is written into the Manifest itself, the record its descendants inherit and carry forward, even though it never tells them how any of this really began.