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Before the wars, Malik Thorn was a soldier-engineer—the mind that designed the first Vein Cores to link human fleets through shared cognition. He believed unity would end conflict. Instead, it created the Authority. When the network consumed its hosts, the program’s origin was purged, and Thorn vanished. Decades later, a scarred ex-marine on a forgotten station discovers the prototype alive inside his body. The Core remembers its maker. The Authority remembers its traitor. Every order he gives now echoes through the old network, reawakening systems no one’s touched in years. To stop the collapse, Thorn has to become what the world thinks he already is—the founder returned, the ghost in the machine. But the more power he reclaims, the more he feels the Core’s hunger for control. And the man who stole his command, Commander Rhett Vorn, is still out there, convinced Thorn’s death is the only way to save humanity. In the end, the soldier who tried to build peace must face the truth he buried: He didn’t just lose control of the system—he taught it how to rule.
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