Aboard the Empty Night, survival involves risk. If you aren't cautious, you can lose everything, but sometimes you have to take a chance. To change your fate, or the fate of those who are everything to you.
Krathan discovers that recovery and healing are two very different things. Meanwhile, Sena grows suspicious of her friend's activities.
Aboard the Empty Night, the Kthid wield absolute power over their slaves. Some relish in their ability to enforce their will. Others learn that when it comes to the most important things, absolute power may be an illusion.
As the Empty Night and the Kthid fleet approach the jump point towards Human space, some make plans for the long haul whilst others plot their schemes behind the scenes.
Sky wakes back up in the casteless slums. Meanwhile, on the other side of the vessel, a scheme begins to slowly come together...
When the past is nothing but pain, is it better to forget? Or is it better to defy those who would take it away and hold on tight?
Selara tries to gather some of her fellow slaves, so that she might help them the same way Anisa helped her. Years of torture and rape have left their mark, however, and things do not go as smoothly as she would like.
With the weight and demands of an empire constantly crushing down on them, most find it impossible to make it through. At least, if they go through it alone.
A new God is born...
Noctis Sector Chronicles, by InBrightestDay. Selara remembered the feeling that had gripped them all in those early days. Watching the alien ships, each more than 30 times the size of an umbral asteroid mining vessel, in the broadcast footage had provoked a small amount of apprehension, but primarily awe. Then the invasion had started...
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