Siege

The first wave is broken. The outpost still stands.

Matthew Reed has spent three years in the dust of Voidscar Mine. Now the Khorvash Dominion is here, and the wormhole they came through is still open. The Reaver hangs in orbit. The perimeter is contracting. The grid is failing one circuit at a time, and the people who held the first assault are already running short of everything that keeps a defence alive.

Matt is no longer just a conscript. Commander Vonn has named him junior systems lead, and the lower ranks have started calling him something else. The Dominion has heard the name. They want him dead.

While Sevryn Thalle keeps the medical bay functioning on dwindling supplies, Drellyn Koss guards what remains of the stores, and Tessik runs the tunnels with messages no one else can carry, Matt works the failing systems that stand between the outpost and the breach.

The Dominion is not trying to break them in a single blow. It is peeling them apart, layer by layer, and it has time.

Voidscar held the first assault. The second wave is coming.