Earth's 15th colony ship's two options: perish or adapt.The planet was not what the colonists expected-a world filled with tens of thousands of islands and no measurable land mass. 450 years later, their descendants live in villages and clanboats.Into this world is born Jonny Oarboy, a young Islandian who stumbles across a small orb, an alien intelligence that holds a 6,000-year-old secret, awakening Jonny to long-lost mysteries: Where did humans come from? What lies beyond this planet? Is Earth real, or a myth?The knowledge is a far greater power than Jonny could have ever imagined and a band of outcasts will do everything in their power to seize the technology for themselves. Jonny must defend the orb at all costs to save his family, his people - and humanity across the galaxy.