This is a generation-spanning roadmap that transports us to the point when Enoch - a 28th-century space waste transport engineer - gets caught up in a whole whirly-gig of aliens, pirates, evil empires, and snarky AIs in Kizuna: Or How to Lose a Spaceship and Still Go Places. (Free to read on KU.)

How would the world change if we received a message from aliens, only to be ghosted by them afterwards?

What if those aliens were actually stuck in stasis somewhere in the interstellar boondocks and didn't know they were off course and transmitting a distress message to a group of quasi-sentient apes 50 light years away?

This story tells the future history of Earth, interspersed with updates of the sleeping alien crew, leading up to the moment when they awake and see the chaos their accidental transmission set off.

Kizuna Histories is updated a couple of times a month.

Ideally. But life sometimes gets in the way.