Just as humanity's era of explosive technological advancement was gaining momentum, something entirely unexpected occurred...
Far beyond the inner planets, in the frigid abyss of the Oort Cloud.
Astronomers generally understand the Oort Cloud to be a massive spherical shell of icy debris, the remnant material left over from the formation of the Sun and its planets five billion years ago. It serves as the birthplace of long-period comets. Stretching from roughly 50,000 to 100,000 astronomical units away from the Sun, its outer edge lies nearly a light-year away, almost a quarter of the distance to Proxima Centauri.
At this extreme distance, the Sun is nothing more than a particularly bright star, its light faint and cold.
