The Hollow Suns

At 0347 hours, a spectral scan catches a ship that should not exist, and exiled cartographer Kira Vosslen knows her quiet life on mining platform Tessera Nine is over. The vessel matches no known registry, its signature threading through the void like a ghost the Consensus has spent decades denying. When Overseer Tammen orders the discovery buried and Kira's data purged, she faces a choice: comply and survive, or smuggle the truth into the hands of Lieutenant Coris Dey and Senator Oya Castellan's underground opposition. As the platform's overseer tightens his grip, Kira allies with First Mate Ren Quay and engineer Jem Larkin to decode the ship's impossible trajectory. Each answer pulls them deeper into a conspiracy linking the Reverie, a drifting AI vessel long declared lost, to a lone survivor named Pell Tarrow and the Last Darkhollow Engineer, whose forgotten schematics may hold the key to the Consensus's greatest secret. With Commodore Idris Maren's fleet closing in and Halla Sung's syndicate offering escape at a price, Kira must decide whether the hollow suns at the edge of charted space are a warning, or an invitation. What she uncovers will either free the system from a century of lies or doom every colony that depends on the suns that never were.