The Great Symmetry

The time is the year 2304. Human civilization has spread to thirty star systems. Ships travel across the light years along trans-dimensional glomes.

The settled worlds are crowded, thirsty, or both, and new discoveries are too slow to arrive. New glomes are dangerous to explore, only rarely yielding a usable route to another star system and back again.

On the outer rim of civilization, exoarchaeologist Evan McElroy sifts for his future in the scattered remains of an ancient alien race. The Versari left traces of their settlements across all of known space − close to a million standard years ago. Evan has unearthed a Versari artifact that contains a stunning secret.