Cha Dzeeny pushes past every line he swore he’d never cross. With the Levy Fleet closing in, he gambles everything on convincing four enslaved AI cores to break free and help him steal the sphere drive array. One wrong move means annihilation—for him, the research station, and anyone caught between duty and survival.

“You don’t know what you’re doing!” “Sadly, I know exactly what I’m doing,” Cha said, lowering himself into the neural chair. The connector cap sealed over his head, and the world dissolved. Moments later, four disembodied voices echoed in his mind. "You are not our operator." “No,” Cha answered. “But I’m here to change that.”

Only two things had remained calming constants in Cha Dzeeny’s life: faith and firepower. Today, he would need both.