AARON MILLS

Alien War and Rising Fire. Riven Voss didn't just survive the war. He started one. When he awakened an ancient warship buried beyond known space, he didn't just gain power-he triggered a rebellion that's tearing human civilization apart. Now the Ascendancy has answered with Extermination Protocol. Entire colonies are being wiped from orbit. Fleets are vanishing mid-jump. And every system that resists.
burns. At the center of it all is Riven-commander of a lost Architect warship powered by forbidden technology and a semi-sentient AI that remembers a war humanity was never meant to know existed. His mission is simple. Find the remaining warships. Build a fleet. Survive long enough to fight back. But nothing about this war is simple. Each ship he activates pushes its reactor closer to collapse. Each battle teaches the enemy how to kill him faster.
And the fractured rebellion he's trying to unite may destroy itself before the Ascendancy ever finishes the job. Worse still.The war isn't what it seems. Because something beyond the edges of the galaxy is watching the conflict unfold-and it's starting to respond. Riven found the warship. Now he must build a fleet powerful enough to challenge an empire.or watch humanity disappear, system by system.