Fiction

Sidus, an undiscovered planet strewn within the Milky Way is the capitol of the Imperium. Inhabited predominantly by the Nin, an alien race that lords over its vassal dominions with an iron-fist. Over millennia the seeds of Imperialism planted blossom in tragic ways. A terrible secret places billion of its subjects & the celestial bodies they call home in harm’s way. Knowledge of which unrolls the sorrowful panorama of Excelsis Deo’s already lost innocence. Plaguing the decorated Nin warrior with disillusion & the ruptures of a starved soul. Burdened by the hopes, dreams & fears of not only his race but a myriad of species; will he live to the pulse beat of his time or shun being a political pawn in a far-reaching power struggle? This novel is a meditation on mortality. An exposition of a planet’s demise and a crumbling empire along with it. Will the Nin grapple for survival in expedient resolve or ambivalently resign to a pre-ordained fate?