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Conflict Space: Swarm of the Hive (Director's Cut)

Conflict Space: Swarm of the Hive (Director's Cut)

by PadenHodges

ProgressionSpace OperaWar and MilitaryGrimdarkMale Lead

Terra Nova was supposed to be a fresh start. It became a graveyard. Orion Steele is an engineer, not a soldier. He prefers the logic of a circuit board to the chaos of a battlefield. But when a terrifying alien force known as the Hive shatters the peace of humanity's newest colony, logic isn't enough to save his home. In a single night of fire and chittering shadows, Hope’s Landing falls. The Hive doesn't just kill; they harvest. Among those dragged into the dark is Mira, Orion’s wife. Left for dead and fueled by a cold, technical rage, Orion finds himself aboard the Valkyrie, a smuggler’s frigate with a skeleton crew. To save Mira, he must evolve. Using his engineering genius to turn tools into weapons and science into a strike force, Orion will hunt the Swarm across the stars. He fixed the colony's machines. Now, he's going to break the Hive. What to expect from this Director's Cut: Hard Sci-Fi Elements: Detailed engineering, weapon modification, and tactical combat. Deep Character Arcs: Expanded scenes and internal monologues not found in the original release. The Swarm: A terrifying, evolving alien threat with a mysterious biological hierarchy. Slow-Burn Progression: Watch a frontier engineer transform into a legendary Hive-hunter. Updated daily/weekly. Dive into the expanded universe of Conflict Space.

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0Prologue: The Last Letter0----
1Chapter 1.1:-1.3 The Weight of a Fedora0----
2Chapter 1.4:-1.6 The Pulse of Hope’s Landing 0----
3Chapter 1.7:-1.9 Into the Hollows 0----
4Chapter 1.10: - 1.12 The Secrets of the Core 0----
5Chapter 1.13 – 1.14: The Fall of Terra Nova [Part 1 Finale]0----
6Chapter 2.1 – 2.3: The Valkyrie Crew [New Arc Begins]0----
7Chapter 2.4 – 2.5: The Ghost in the Machine [Mira’s Signal]0----
8Chapters 2.6 – 2.9: The Obsidian Maw [Drop Zone]0----
9Chapters 2.10 – 2.13: The Warden Protocol [Boss Encounter]0----
10Chapters 3.1 – 3.3: The Jungle Protocol [New Character Unlocked]0----
11Chapters 3.4 – 4.1: The Price of Extraction0----
12Chapter 4.2 – 4.6: The Lullaby of the Hive0----
13Chapter 4.6 – 5.4: Fire, Acid, and Hate0----
14Chapter 5.5 – 6.1: Inside the Beast0----
15Chapter 6.2 – 6.5: Venom in the Veins0----
16Chapter 7.1 – 7.4: The Architects of Ruin0----
17Chapter 7.5 – 8.3: Eviction Notice0----
18Chapter 8.4 – 8.8: The Enemy Within0----
19Chapter 9.1 - 9.2: The Rotting Oasis0----
20Chapter 9.3: The Gullet and the Guillotine0----
21Chapter 9.3: The Gullet and the Guillotine0----