The Age of Shattered Stars

The Throneworld is gone. The Empire is dead. The scavengers are at the throat of the galaxy. When the Orion Pact triggered the Helios Lance, they didn't just kill a system; they deleted the heart of human civilization. With the Terran Imperium decapitated and its remaining loyalists fracturing into three warring internal cliques, the galaxy has descended into a "war of all against all." From the militaristic Iron Assembly and the merchant princes of the Free Trade League to the fanatical Ashen Covenant and the enigmatic Heuristic Commune, every faction has a vision for the new era—and a fleet to enforce it. At the center of the storm stand three figures who will decide the fate of billions: Leonair, the "Young Wolf": A brilliant tactician trying to unite the desperate and the displaced. Harkon: The Iron Assembly’s Patriarch, who believes only a cold, steel fist can stop the bleeding. Mirai: A Voidbound Adept whose psychic connection to the deep reveals a truth the others are blind to. But while the factions tear each other apart, The Black Sun moves in the shadows. Guided by a secret, sentient AI unleashed during the catastrophe, they are playing a "Littlefinger" game of interstellar manipulation—driving the galaxy toward a final, machine-led reckoning.