Chapter IX: The First Verse

The Red Raptor crew has barely escaped their climactic confrontation with Axion with little more than their lives. As Thane is dragged back from death, the man he was begins to fracture, giving way to a colder and more certain will forged through failure. In the hands of the Cult of Axion, Amare faces a far crueller fate, as her identity is stripped away and reshaped into something new. Meanwhile, the Cracking of Bothawui sends tremors through the galaxy, as the first signs of a far greater conflict begin to emerge.