Sent by the last survivors of a dying  world, the Captain of the Mothership Ectopia, a terraforming world building machine,  is an Indigenous Scientist  chosen for her linguistic, bio-technic, and cultural fluidity. Her mission is to seed new life on a faraway planet. Entering the planet's orbit, attempting to pierce its atmospheric shell had triggered a massive countersurge of dark matter, causing heavy metals to be expelled from the planet's core, sparking a chain reaction of nuclear fission which froze the Spaceship's core generator and threw its systems offline.

Exposure to cosmic radiation from the blast created a magnetic ionosphere around the vessel that pulled it into the gravitational field of the planet and sucked it into its molten core. This anti-matter meltdown caused the planet to collapse inward on itself, folding time and compressing space in eclipsing the Spaceship's vectorial and geometric proprioception and dismantling the Worldbuilder's energetic gridlines until Planet and Terraformer became entangled and indistinguishable from one another.

In their quantum superposition, new possibilities for form and existence  came into being -- for motion, body, and distance. Having  tunnelled into the centre of the planet, the Mothership was now the cosmic crankshaft, the rod turning the wheel of the universe, the fulcrum upon which galaxies spin, the Axis Mythos running through the entire story, the point at which every place is immediate. Where all points are equidistant yet there is no distance between them at all, there is no destination but everything can be accessed,  every epoch inhabited.