From the depths of cosmic history to ten thousand years in the future, there is the ArcBuilder Universe.  Created by a civilization lost to time, the ArcWays became the key to creating a true interstellar civilization, allowing instantaneous travel between the stars and maintaining all which truly defines a civilized and cohesive society.  Yet Mankind is a trespasser to the ArcWays, using them without truly understanding them, unaware of their effect on previous civilizations, and always holding a subliminal portion of frightened wonder at how powerful their original Builders must have been to create a technology that seems to be so defiant of all known physics.

Yet, perhaps even more frightening than the possibility of encountering those vanished ArcBuilders is a prospect that very few are even aware of, the prospect of encountering that force contained within the ArcWays themselves which destroyed the Builders one hundred thousand years ago.