Star pilot Rory Tennyson is severely injured in a road bike accident. To pay for her new cyborg parts she agrees to pilot the Manifestum to Zaidor. Her new ship is everything she ever dreamed of with a computer system that is almost human in its responses. As she progresses through the hyber-sleep portion of the journey, she dreams of a wonderful man. However, Manifestum interrupts her dreams on their way back home to Earth when the ship is attacked by mysterious alien entities. Rory wonders if she will ever see her dream man again and why the Manifestum seems to know things about him.