Starlight Shattered: Book 1: The Unraveling
Starlight Shattered: Book 1: The Unraveling
Order is the shield against chaos. Duty is the blade that defends it.
For 50,000 years, the Varkh Ascendancy has kept the peace. They have paved over the natural world with concrete, replaced the sky with steel, and bred the chaos out of humanity. They call it Purity.
But Purity has a price.
In the planet-sized city of Caer Aeternum, a loose thread is about to unravel the tapestry of the empire. It starts with a student asking a dangerous question. It spreads to a father betraying his family for safety. It ends with a Purity Officer discovering that the monsters he hunts share his own blood.
Starlight Shattered is a chronicle of the breaking point. Through the eyes of the oppressors and the oppressed—the alien miners eating the rock that imprisons them, the nobles bored by their own perfection, and the mechanics plotting an escape to the stars—witness the genesis of a rebellion that will burn the galaxy.
The truth is not in the history books. It is in the deleted files.
Table of Contents
The Loose Thread
A Mother's Duty
Hybrid on Hab-block 15
66.924.12L: Application for Affection
Standard Deviation
Varkh Days of Summer
Climbing Up to Reach the Bottom
The Metric Descends
The Cost of Truth
Life Outside the Lines
Audit of Flesh
View from Below
The Price of Purity
Sanguine Champion
Torchbearer
The Measure of Strength
The Genesis of Order
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