Starfall Ascendancy. Ascendancy Saga, #1

An Epic First Contact Galactic War Space OperaNo one remembers when humanity first came to the stars. But someone does.  At the edge of known space, Commander Elias Varren watches the sky tear open. An alien fleet emerges from a corridor that shouldn't exist-ships older, larger, and more advanced than anything humanity has ever faced. Within minutes, entire colonies vanish. Fleets are wiped out. Signals go dark. Humanity is no longer expanding. It is being erased.  The Aethel Dominion has ruled the galaxy for tens of thousands of years. They do not conquer. They correct. To them, humanity is not a discovery. It is a mistake.  Outgunned.
Outnumbered. Outmatched. Elias barely survives the first encounter. But in the aftermath of destruction, his ship uncovers something impossible. A signal. Hidden deep within human technology. Older than history. And powerful enough to make an ancient empire afraid.  Now hunted across collapsing star systems, Elias and his crew must follow the signal into forbidden space-where dead civilizations, alien ruins, and buried truths wait in silence. Every answer brings them closer to the truth. And closer to extinction.  Because humanity's past is not what it seems. And if the Dominion is right. Humanity was never meant to survive.  The war for the stars has begun. And the man chosen to save humanity may be the one who proves it should fall.