James Orson jumped into the uncharted void to resurrect a lost civilization. What he found was a dying fleet ruled by paranoid tyrants.
Arriving at the edge of the universe with a stolen Cephalopod God-Drive, James and his fiercely loyal Pride finally discover the Ancestor Fleet of the Void Shogunate. But instead of an armada ready for war, they find a decaying civilization hiding in the dark, governed by High Lords who view humanity as a parasite and James’s bond with his wives as an abomination.
To protect his crew – and his newborn triplets – from being torn apart by archaic laws, James is forced to invoke the Rite of the Anchor. He must survive near-suicidal trials of mind and blood against the Shogunate’s greatest champions to prove his worth as a Warlord and seize command of the fleet.
But political survival quickly becomes the least of their worries. The Tigress’s transit hasn’t gone unnoticed. The Cephalopod Hegemony, gravity-bending apex predators of the deep void, have tracked their wake. As liquid-metal nightmares descend to consume the isolated and obsolete Shogunate, James must rally a broken people to stand against an extinction-level threat.
The Warlord has finally found his empire. Now he just has to keep it from being eradicated.
Genre: Thriller
Arriving at the edge of the universe with a stolen Cephalopod God-Drive, James and his fiercely loyal Pride finally discover the Ancestor Fleet of the Void Shogunate. But instead of an armada ready for war, they find a decaying civilization hiding in the dark, governed by High Lords who view humanity as a parasite and James’s bond with his wives as an abomination.
To protect his crew – and his newborn triplets – from being torn apart by archaic laws, James is forced to invoke the Rite of the Anchor. He must survive near-suicidal trials of mind and blood against the Shogunate’s greatest champions to prove his worth as a Warlord and seize command of the fleet.
But political survival quickly becomes the least of their worries. The Tigress’s transit hasn’t gone unnoticed. The Cephalopod Hegemony, gravity-bending apex predators of the deep void, have tracked their wake. As liquid-metal nightmares descend to consume the isolated and obsolete Shogunate, James must rally a broken people to stand against an extinction-level threat.
The Warlord has finally found his empire. Now he just has to keep it from being eradicated.
Genre: Thriller
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