He was erased from history. Now he's the only one who remembers.
A fast-paced sci-fi novella where memory is weaponized, archives breathe, and legacy fights back.

Cairn Velos grew up as a ghost—his family legacy scrubbed from the galactic record, his House branded traitors and forgotten. But when he stumbles onto a buried archive and activates the forbidden Protocol 09-A, everything changes.

Now he’s not just alive—he’s dangerous.

Awakening an outlawed AI was just the beginning. Cairn has inherited more than a name; he’s inherited a war the Concord thought it buried centuries ago. With the memory of a fallen empire encoded into the planet Vyre itself, Cairn becomes the one thing the ruling Houses can’t control—a living key to the past they tried to destroy.

As ghost-constructs rise, ancient archives breathe, and war-era secrets crack open beneath his feet, Cairn is pulled into a power struggle he’s not ready for. Haunted by AI fragments, hunted by noble families, and stalked by a memory that shouldn't exist, Cairn must decide:

Will he preserve the truth his ancestors died to protect?

Or will he become the next casualty in a history rewritten by those who survived it?

For fans of sentient ships, galactic conspiracies, morally gray protagonists, and archives that bite back.

Perfect for readers of The Red Rising Saga, The Scythe Trilogy, and Foundryside.

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