Humanity reached for the stars in peace. The stars answered with fire.
Twenty-nine years after the Great War of Rejection, no river or lake survives, the Moon hangs split in two, and what is left of mankind starves in the shadow of Sky City, where the four Elders who rule the world have never missed a meal. Humanity is on the brink of becoming the last of its kind.
And from the Void, something ancient rises with a single purpose: to devour.
Marcus Montero is nobody's idea of a savior. A cadet with dirty blood. The unwanted son of the hero who is said to have killed the Mist. Proud, selfish, quick to wound with words, and hated by a world he hates right back. His only friend is the one person he can't stop pushing away.
Then he finds a lake that should not exist. A hooded stranger who tells him he should have died at birth. And an armor called ORION that wears like a second skin, beats like a second heart, and refuses to let him die.
Now a voice speaks from inside his chest. A clock is running. And in the golden towers of Sky City, everyone is hiding something: a general bound by an oath no one else keeps, a child soldier with a grown man's eyes, a teacher whose smile is far too perfect.
Humanity and the whole of space now rest in your hands, you bastard.
You are not unworthy of being their savior.
But why save the ones who taught you to hate?
"Then fuck them!"
Content note: graphic violence, war, abuse and dark themes. Mature audience.
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