The year is 2423 CE.

Just two centuries have passed since the invention of the warp drive and the subsequent discovery of the first interstellar gateway... a curious relic positioned near Earth, easily reached by warp-capable vessels, yet effectively inaccessible to the chemical rockets of earlier centuries.

Fragments of Precursor technology have been reverse-engineered just enough to exploit their cryptographic key-gate pairs and unlock the dormant gateway. The CEOs and shareholders funding the effort hope it to be the first of many, and the hunt for gates and their paired hardware keys has begun.

A key to a new Gateway means unlimited new resources to exploit. What could go wrong?

Drawn by hand and built over years, The Quiet Key is yet another dystopian story about our hyper-capitalist cyberpunk present becoming an ultra-capitalist and cyberpunk-ier future.