A series by Red Mercius
The Last of Humanity
Thirty ships left Earth. One arrived.
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Book One · Coming 2027
Paradise was already taken.
After decades of losing a war against the Zwen, humanity sent thirty colony vessels into the dark. Only Earth-27 survived the crossing: seven Enclosures of colonists, burned and broken, falling toward a world called Regis Prime.
Three suns. Violet forests. Breathable air. It looks like salvation. But the planet has rules the colonists don't understand, their leader is presumed dead, and the natives have very good reasons to want them gone.
Aboard Earth-27
Seven Enclosures.
One chance.
Earth-27 carries what's left of humanity in seven sealed Enclosures, each with its own representative and its own wounds from the crossing.
One civilian, Petyr, coordinates them all. When the ship falls toward a star's gravity well, he has to decide who gets help first, knowing that some of them won't make it.
- Enclosure 1Stable
- Enclosure 2Holding
- Enclosure 3Holding
- Enclosure 4CriticalHull integrity 10% · Section 12 heat breach
- Enclosure 5Damaged
- Enclosure 6Damaged
- Enclosure 7Command
The colony's oath
Remember the mission
But whose mission is it now?
The World
A haunted garden
Earth-27
The last of thirty colony vessels. Seven Enclosures, a ship's AI, and a government arguing procedure while the hull burns.
Regis Prime
Three suns, violet and orange forests, a lake that glitters like salvation. Every beautiful thing here has a cost.
The Zwen
The war humanity lost. They took Earth's future, and they're still out there, listening.
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