11 short stories and novellas spanning the history of the Compact. In the present day, a man is accidentally uploaded into an AI and begins undermining the tech bro responsible for his transformation. Find out the crime that haunts Tol Germanicus in the Suicide Arc and how the original Gelt homeworld fell. Witness JT Austin's first days on Amargosa and Ellie Nardino's rise to resistance leader of three species. Learn who the Grays really are and discover the truth behind a Gelt Sovereign's murder. From today's turbulent world to humanity's near extinction by its own hand, from the Gelt's loss of their cradle to another man's upload into cyberspace. And of course, JT and Ellie live out a Hallmark story. In space. With wolf-like aliens. And zero-G frolicking.

And kaiju. Yeah, some planets have kaiju.