On the dying Martian colony of Outpost Theta, twelve skeletal survivors cling to life beneath a cracked biodome, their bodies ravaged by radiation, bone-rot, and despair. Abandoned by Earth, they await a slow extinction—until a luminous, humanoid entity dubbed “The Lumen” emerges from the storms. Radiating empathy and cosmic intelligence, the Lumen seeks to heal them, its shimmering light mending wounds and purifying air. But humanity’s fragile biology cannot withstand its alien salvation.