A First Contact Space Opera Thriller.
What if faster-than-light travel wasn't exploration... but possession?
In 2063, humanity finally cracks interstellar travel. The breakthrough isn't propulsion.
It's consciousness transfer.
Instead of sending ships across the stars, Earth sends minds.
When Captain Arin Vale volunteers for the first jump, she expects to wake in deep space aboard a human vessel.
She wakes inside an alien warship.
At first, Mission Control calls it a miracle. A leap beyond physics. A triumph of human evolution.
Then the truth surfaces.
Every jump doesn't create a destination.
It overwrites one.
Someone was living in that body.
Flying that ship.
Fighting their own war.
And now they are gone.
As more jumps are made, entire alien civilizations begin to collapse without warning. Star systems go silent. Fleets vanish mid-battle. Whispers spread across the galaxy.
Humanity has violated something ancient.
The Galactic Protocol.
A law older than Earth. A rule written into the fabric of intelligent life.
And now its enforcers are waking up.
When an alien consciousness tears into Earth's network and jumps back into a human body, the message is clear:
Balance will be restored.
One species at a time.
Caught between saving her world and condemning countless others, Arin must decide how far humanity is willing to go to survive.
Because the universe doesn't forgive.
It enforces.
And the Protocol has begun.
