Even as an untrained Builder, youthful Bornstellar belongs to the Forerunner elite, but others are beginning to notice his errant ways. Instead of stepping in the footsteps of the master, this headstrong Manipular has become obsessed with relics of the Precursors, the long-extinct superbeings who had gone before. To cure him of this dangerous frivolity, he has been banished to live among the lowly Miners. But what begins as exile becomes an unforgettable adventure.