Introduction: Colony ships have been selected from all over the galaxy. Turns out they are all headed to the same small planet though. Among rebelling AIs, tax auditors, pansexual recyclers, zombies, immortal monks and imperialistic gamers who will make it through? Will they manage to survive long enough to join forces and fight the blobby darkness that is rising to swallow the whole of reality? You will find those answers in this book and some more in the part where a five-dimensional being shows up for a Ask Me Anything session....