A master swordsman. A droid who chose his own name. And an ancient power that wants only to be unleashed.
Sent to the broken world of Col to rescue a Chancellor's family from a public execution, the master strategist Thaelberon descends beneath a dying planet and finds something far older than the war he came to end — a containment sealed by sacrifice, and the entity bound within it.
It calls itself the Veilbreaker. It does not want to escape. It wants to be destroyed — but only by someone strong enough to do it. And to test him, it will let him break the very seal that holds it. By the time Thaelberon understands what he has done, the seal is gone, the planet is tearing itself apart, and an ancient force is moving freely among the stars for the first time in an age.
He came to protect two lives. He leaves having set something loose that no one in the Federation or the Dominion is prepared to face.
“This was not the end of a mission. It was the beginning of a reckoning.”
A strategist who happens to carry a blade. His name carries weight across contested systems not because he seeks it, but because outcomes follow him. He fights cleanly, thinks several moves ahead, and is trusted for one reason above all: he does not abandon a mission when it becomes complicated. Col took his mother and sister years ago. He has sworn he will not miss the moment again.
The galaxy assumes he is just another machine built in a Federation facility, issued a designation, and pointed at a target. But the serial number was never what made him Oron — that was chosen. Found damaged and half-buried in ash, offered the choice to return to those who built him or walk away, he chose the second path. A companion who can kill without hesitation, yet who places human life above the mission when it matters most.
A galaxy of warring powers, ancient megastructures, and frontier worlds — glimpsed here through its relics, vessels, and field records.
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