The Dark Star Universe
Birth of the Galactic Federation
Book 1 of the Dark Star Trilogy
Point of No Return
A human colony ship en route to a new planet is a prestigious, but nonthreatening, assignment. All of that goes horribly wrong when the Midgar-6 makes first contact with a hostile alien race. Now, Captain Amara Black and her crew have one chance to save a million colonists in suspended animation… but they might have even bigger problems…

Chapter 1 – The Midgar-6
Chapter 2 – The Ship Graveyard
Chapter 3 – The Rape of a Heroine
Chapter 4 – The Eternal Torment
Chapter 5 – The Confrontation
Chapter 6 – The Mistrunner
Chapter 7 – The Demons
Chapter 8 – The Dark Star
Chapter 9 – The Inferno
Chapter 10 – The Nightmare
Chapter 11 – The Reckoning
Chapter 12 – The Failure
Epilogue – The Sacrifice

Noctis Sector Chronicles –
Be As Gods
By John Drake
Before she was a living legend, before she was the greatest scientist humanity had ever produced, Dr. Maria Keye was less than a nobody…

Noctis Sector Chronicles – The Last Hunt
by PrinceCai
On the surface of a primitive world, a race of predatory, dominant women have what will be their last hunt…

Noctis Sector Chronicles – Do Not Go Gentle
By InBrightestDay
Selara remembered the feeling that had gripped them all in those early days. Watching the alien ships in the broadcast footage had provoked a small amount of apprehension, but primarily awe. Then the invasion began…
Book 2 of the Dark Star Trilogy
Event Horizon
The Kthid prepare for the invasion of the Human Federation… but the HEF is not caught unprepared. In both empires, and in the vastness of space, the gears of war begin to grind, and if care is not taken it might grind our heroes to paste between them.

What are the Noctis Sector Chronicles?
The Noctis Sector is the area of space about 140 light years from Earth in the Eridani direction, spiralward. The sector itself refers to an unusually dense star cluster, an area of several hundred stars all within about 20 light-years of each other. This phenomenon is caused by the Dark Star, a black hole that has gathered the cluster together over hundreds of millions of years. This is the location journeyed to by Captain Talia Icarus of the Mistrunner, and it is where that ship’s doomed voyage ended.
By far its most notable feature, however, is that it appears to be where life originated. Scientists have long believed that due to the similar cellular makeup of life on other worlds humanity has discovered, that the origin of life was celestial, drifting on asteroids between words and deposited across the galaxy. With the Noctis Sector, so named for the Dark Star at its center, humanity has finally found the source of that life.
There are a high number of sentient life forms within the Noctis Sector… although at present it is unknown as to why, besides the general density of life. The Kthid originated from within this sector, as have most other races we encounter in the Dark Star Universe.
These are the stories of those races.
Some of these stories will be by me. Others will be by fans, written with my blessing and presented as such.
Technical Journals
These are details on the races, technology, and history of the Dark Star Universe. They are intended to be optional reading – the stories should all work without any of this additional context.
Technical Entries
Magnetic Shields
Lilis Wormhole
Midgar-class colony ships
Cryo-stasis and Life Extension
Uniforms of the HEF
Weapons of the HEF (Personal)
The Big Crunch
3D Printing Technology
Exalted Android Bodies
Artificial Machine Intelligence
Healing Gel
Panspermia
Void Ecology
The Fermi Paradox
Names of Stars
Singularity Drive
Lilis Warp Drive
History Entries
The Terran Federation and the Human Expansionary Fleet
The Theseus Ship Problem – AI, Consciousness, and Identity
Exploration of the Eridani Sector
Creation of the Templar
Galactic Encyclopedia of Lifeforms
The Alicians
The Arane
The Exalted
The Faliran
The Kthid
The Sethis
The Nys
The Void Tracers

Amara Black
Human
41 Years Old, Life Extended
Captain of the Midgar-6, HEF, Terran Federation

Miranda Black
Human
49 Years Old, Life Extended
Captain of the Aetos Dios, HEF, Terran Federation

Atalanta Navaris
Exalted, Uploaded Human Mind
212 Years Old
Quartermaster of the Midgar-6, HEF, Terran Federation

Dr Anna Constantos
Human
41 Years Old, Life Extended
Chief Medical Officer of the Midgar-6, HEF, Terran Federation

Ki’an’i Reeves
Sethis
38 Years Old, Life Extended
Chief Security Officer of the Midgar-6, HEF, Terran Federation

Ri’she’a To’gir’a
Sethis
33 Years Old, Life Extended
Helmsman of the Midgar-6, HEF, Terran Federation

Thomas Shale
Human
38 Years Old, Life Extended
Stowaway, Criminal Element

Dr Maria Keye
Exalted, Uploaded Human Mind
423 Years Old
Head of Scientific Research Division, HEF, Terran Federation

Princess Thia
Faliran, Queen Phenotype
56 Years Old
Last surviving Queen of the Faliran People

Sarcand
Kthid, Warrior Caste
245 Years Old
Harvestmaster of the Terran Harvest Fleet, Huntmaster of the Death of Hope, Kthid Imperium
World Building Material and Tech




