New Dawn Book 1 of the Wandering Engineer

It it always darkest before the dawn. For 700 years the scattered survivors of the Xeno-Federation war have known this. Sol and the core systems are gone.
The scattered survivors on far flung worlds and space colonies must try to survive a universe gone mad. They have spent that time scratching an existence out of what ever they could. Those trapped aboard surviving space colonies waited until the parts failed and life support was snuffed out.
But a free trader crewed by women are about to change things. Fleeing a pirate they will stumble across a relic from their distant past. When the lifepod opens they will begin the journey back into the light of a New Dawn.

This is book 1 of the Wandering engineer story arch. There are 3 seperate story archs plotted, each with 3 or more books exploring many things.