The universe doesn't care about your survival instinct, and this show proves it in the first ten minutes. Yao Yuan's crew isn't searching for a new home, they're running from extinction, and every decision costs lives because there's no winning move, only which failure hurts less. What makes it brutal is the honesty: humanity's only advantage is that it hasn't learned to stop fighting yet.

Fragments of a neutron star have pushed Earth to the brink of destruction, and humanity's future rests on a single desperate plan. Yao Yuan leads Black Star Squad, a special forces unit charged with carrying a great many people off the planet aboard the spacecraft Hope in search of a new world. Through their adventures and battles, the team learns that far more advanced civilizations exist out among the stars. They also come to a grim realization: space is no paradise but an unknown expanse of darkness, peril, death and fear. The twelve episodes of this ONA mix action and science fiction.