Series premise · no plot outcomes
Rebuilding after the invasion
Humanity’s return to space, salvaged technology, and the work of beginning again.
Read the universe primerThe universe
The reader’s companion
A place to find your bearings between voyages.
Looking for a ship name, your next book, or a doorway back into the universe? Start here. Each guide tells you how far into the story it goes.
Before your first voyage
Book 1 · opening-scene details
The First Three
Look up Vanguard, Defiant, and Hope, with references back to the commissioning scene.
Open the ship referencePeople at the commissioning: Elizabeth Shaw, Thomas, and Admiral Chen. Each dossier starts closed.
Ship terms in the opening scene
Look up Cascade Reactors, drive nacelles, and hull plating in a glossary bounded to the commissioning sample. Each Book 1 note starts closed.
Open the commissioning glossaryA little farther into the story
The next entry discusses early first contact in Book 2. Open it only when you want those details.
Show the Book 2 entry · early first-contact spoilers
A language of light
A short note on Keraneth communication.
Read the early-contact guideThe lives beyond the fleet
Salvage sheds, unfamiliar soil, and one voice still transmitting. The short stories offer another way into the universe.
Choose a self-contained story