The Fall Of Vega

Five hundred years under the Imperium has brought order at the cost of freedom and charted every course humanity takes. Demetrius, a miner with a scientist's mind and a smuggler's impulse, dreams of escape. When a system-wide energy shortage threatens to tear the empire apart, he's given a single, treacherous chance: recover a rumored element from a distant planet, a substance whispered to be the key to survival. What begins as a salvage run becomes a race through uncharted space and buried...