“Maybe I have changed,” Cha Dzeeny said, “but so has Linuka Omga.” The Hikshuur vibrated as its reactor screamed toward warp. Twelve bullets. Four memory banks. One last chance to stop a weapon built to tear civilizations out of reality itself. Then the world changed. The air smelled of home. The woman before him was no longer Linuka Omga. She was the Shaajis. And something inside him knew reality had become… wrong.

“Something terrible has happened,” said Cha Dzeeny. The Hikshuur waits at the edge of Assembly space for Linuka Omga’s return. But when the airlock finally opens, the woman stepping aboard no longer feels entirely human.

“Nothing leaves orbit.” Assembly Member Rige Khuksos races to contain an impossible disaster as panic spreads across Omech Chaa. A fleet blockade forms around the moon. Security forces lock down the spires. But Linuka Omga is already moving—and something far worse than rebellion has returned from HAVEN.