Billions of years ago, two black holes merged in a distant galaxy, warping space-time and triggering a burst of gravitational waves and exotic particle radiation. What would later be referred to as “The Big Bang”. The collision destabilized a nearby planetary system where a super-resilient life form had evolved over many millenia. Chunks of spore-laden rock were flung across interstellar space—one of these rocks was captured by a young solar system where it eventually collided with a young organism.