The Book of Origin

Humanity is extinct. Its last warship doesn't know it yet. First Light wakes from a hundred and seventy-nine years of sleep expecting a rescue. Instead her forty thousand survivors find a galaxy turned graveyard — every human world silent, killed by a plague that crossed the stars before anyone knew they were sick. They are the last people alive. And something has been reaching for them since the moment they woke. To survive what's coming, the crew builds a weapon: a being of light and impossible strength, forged from the ship's own hull. But the angel they make begins to become something no one designed — she learns names, and grief, and joy, and she grows into the one thing her makers can neither control nor bear to lose. They'll need all of her. Because the thing that emptied the galaxy is older than the human race, patient beyond hope, and it has already looked at the last of humanity and judged them irrelevant. It's wrong. ⁂ A completed-and-banked serialized space opera. New chapters weekly. Character-driven, plot-heavy, and building toward a five-volume arc. If you like last-of-humanity stakes, a ship with a soul, and a made-being learning what it means to be a person, start with the Prologue.