One can't set a course without a map. A ship's navigator seeks to map a world already inhabited in order to find a space for their ship's passengers to settle. In doing so, they find their course altered as the world and their place in it changes.
Dr. Feyrouz Hanafusa is a curator at Yale in the 23rd century. Space exploration is still ongoing, and signs of life have been discovered on a planet near TRAPPIST-1. Signs, Dr. Hanafusa realizes, that suspiciously resemble drawings in the Voynich manuscript, which no one has been able to decipher for over eight hundred years.
