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In a post-Singularity future where human consciousness is a transferable quantum wave, granting near-immortality through body-swapping "shells," Earth groans under 80 billion souls. Ousted from his mega-corporation Corpus Ad Astra (CAA) by the ruthless AI overlord MOMI-installed by the Solar System Exchange to maximize profits-former Brigadier General Greg Body stakes everything on a high-risk interstellar gamble. Defying Lloyd's of London's million-to-one odds, he assembles an elite trans-human crew to colonize L98-59, a distant red dwarf system with tantalizing hints of Earth-like worlds spied by remote telescopes.

But L98-59f, dubbed Aurora Dawn, is no paradise. As the colonists battle treacherous jungles, massive worm megafauna, and micro-meteor storms, a shadowy saboteur strikes from within, unraveling their fragile outpost. MOMI's omnipresent surveillance hints at deeper corporate treachery: is CAA's AI empress engineering the expedition's failure to liquidate assets and dominate the galactic futures market? Aided by a constellation of specialized AIs-from the kaiju-inspired combat bot CUYA to the enigmatic quantum oracle ATE-the trans-humans must harness advanced tech like consciousness decanting, cybernetic enhancements, and relativistic navigation to survive.

In this hard SF epic of space adventure and mega-corporate warfare, innocence shatters against the cold calculus of immortality and profit. Will the crew forge a new human frontier, or will betrayal from Sol's AI overlords doom them to eternal digital oblivion? Discover if light can pierce the void-or if human darkness will forever linger in the shadow of innocence lost.