The dark between stars
1. inhuman
Imagine a world where faster-than-light travel creates vicious, mindless ghosts that haunt the streets, ready to tear the flesh from your bones. Imagine a world where anyone--your friend, your neighbour, your child, your spouse--has the potential to turn ghost when they die; a ghost that looks like them but will kill you as easily and readily as a stranger.
Now imagine that's not the most frightening thing in your world...