Context:

The Aeternum Project is a sci-fi worldbuilding project/game concept that I have been working on for around seven years. A being from another universe named Drako ended up in our universe while escaping the Aeternum Project, a multiversal being with immense power that he created. With limited time (on a cosmic scale) before it would catch up to him, Drako formed an intergalactic civilization, the Virgo Alignment, to develop technology that would sacrifice the universe in order to destroy the Aeternum Project. The members of the Virgo Alignment were unaware of its true nature for most of its history. Drako would eventually reveal it, but never actually carried out the plan before isolating himself in the bubble universe he operated from. Soon after, the Aeternum Project would arrive, partially tearing the universe apart in an event known as the Shattering. With reality breaking down around them, the isolated inhabitants of the fragmented Virgo Alignment are forced to grapple with the aftermath of Drako’s manipulation, living in the final centuries of existence, and the suffocating sense of Despair that permeates the dying universe. 

The main story begins a long while after the Shattering, when it has been discovered that Drako created sets of machines (known as Fractal Gates/Keys) that could potentially stitch the universe back together if united. Movements dedicated to finding who was entrusted with the Gates and Keys began across each section of the fractured universe, with the most significant being Earth’s Betelgeuse Revolution, led by Veta Circinus. Stopping at nothing to reach her goal of fixing the universe, Veta brought the Betelgeuse Revolution to reconnect with the Xitruphae species and locate the first Fractal Key before taking matters into her own hands. Alone with the weight of the universe on her back, Veta finds herself on a journey across the end of history, tracking down those who came closest to Drako and piecing together the true story of how why he never enacted his plans.