The bestial grin of totalitarian humanism

Humanity races across the Cradle Galaxy aboard lightning-fast stream-trains. It is an era of marvels, glittering metropolises, and boundless knowledge. And of beings — genetically altered humans, legally stripped of their humanity.

When Axel "Ax" Fontaine, a being and former elite stream-trooper — now head of security on the luxury express "Briareus" — begins investigating a terrorist attack on his crewmate alongside his old comrade-in-arms Phan Thi Linh, their search on one planet intersects with a far darker plot. Meanwhile, on another world, Wad-Prince Irfan AlNilam, a royal outcast haunted by his past, and his devoted bodyguard and lover Murad hunt for the kidnapped directors of an MT perinatal center.

As the two investigations collide, they uncover a conspiracy that threatens to shatter the mighty MT Corporation and ignite a revolution across the stars.

In a society built on genetic purity and corporate power, what is the true cost of phantom freedom?

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