The Starship Kai and the Magi Series The Commonwealth Era (Book 3). The Prime Buffaloverse

In a universe of perfect, sterile peace, the greatest threat is a reality of raw, uninhibited connection.?The CS Kai is a vessel of consensus, mutual aid, and restorative justice, exploring the post-scarcity utopia of the Commonwealth. But when the ship slips through a multiversal "Thin Spot" into the thirty-first dimension, the pacifist crew faces something their mathematical frameworks never prepared them for: the Magi.?Existing in a realm of high-concept fantasy-physics, the Magi are hyper-conscious entities who manipulate reality through the overwhelming, non-Newtonian physics of raw intimacy.
To the crew of the Kai, this higher dimension registers as a telepathic broadcast of uninhibited polyamorous connection that shatters their polite, societal boundaries.?As Mission Coordinator MoTif is flooded with fabricated, slow-burn memories by an Obsidian Warrior, and Systems Architect Jack is forced to endure the phantom grief of unlived timelines, the crew is stripped bare. They must navigate a heavy, sensory crucible of deep psychological exposure to survive.?But the Magi's dimension is only a buffer.
Behind the shivering glass of reality, the Hegemony Vanguard-a nightmare armada fueled by the agonizing magic of a Chained God-is breaking through to consume the Commonwealth. Armed with a terrifying artifact of absolute logic from the thirty-second dimension, MoTif and her exposed, deeply bonded crew must pivot from peaceful observation to the feral heat of survival.?The era of the cage is over. The pacifists must go to war.