Children of Strife follows the remaining humans aboard a ship as they try to determine what has happened to their crewmates who left to explore an interstellar ark. In a far-future after Earth fell, ark ships hunted for a new home, seeking lost worlds terraformed in Earth’s forgotten past. A ship crewed by maverick humans, spiders, and a mantis shrimp captain rediscovers one such world and an ark. Human crewmate Alis wakes to discover that she, her captain, and the ship’s intelligence are the only ones left on their ship. What happened to those who left to explore the ark and the world below? Children of Strife is set in the Children of Time universe, featuring first contact and the nature of intelligence among the stars.