O.R. Savage's

For centuries, the galaxy has lived beneath the shadow of a blue star at its edge—Procyx, the EndStar—its sudden appearance foretold long ago in ancient Mhyrnian texts. Though the star itself never moves, entire systems collapse around it, erased without warning or mercy.

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As Arghol, one of the last surviving planets in the Persepolis Sector, begins its final descent into oblivion, Federation officer Martin Palmer leads yet another evacuation of a world already marked for death. Years saving lives from doomed planets has left him exhausted and longing for home, but when the choice is leave or abandon those who remain, Palmer stays.

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Among the holdouts is Gaultor, a Mhyrnian shaman exiled from his own world for defying its elders. To his followers—fanatics hardened by centuries of bloodshed at the hands of the Federation—refusal is a form of defiance, and death a final act of proof. Gaultor is the only voice they will heed, and the last man who should ever place his faith in a Federation officer.

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Yet as Arghol darkens and time runs out, Gaultor begins to see something in Palmer that unsettles him. Palmer is not like the others. His respect for the Mhyrnians—and his refusal to treat them as collateral—sets him apart from the very power he serves.

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What begins as wary cooperation becomes something far more dangerous: trust. And on a dying world beneath a silent blue star, the choices these two men make will not only decide who escapes Arghol—but whether the galaxy itself has a future.