Vestibules: False Axis

To be or not to be. For Senator Mbayo and 11 billion Areans, the question is literal. When a single warship annihilates the International Space Station in minutes, the balance of power across the Helion system collapses overnight. At its centre stands General Shade, a brilliant, ruthless commander leading the breakaway Proximian Navy, and a man driven as much by vengeance as by ideology. As Tellus scrambles to respond, Mbayo finds herself caught between a collapsing Union, moral compromise ...