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Seed and Ash
by G. Younger
Language: English
ISBN: 978-1-955699-23-5
Categories: Fiction » Science Fiction » Aliens
Content Rating: Older than 13
The Falcon was meant to carry a thousand dreams to a new world. Instead, it hits a dying planet, its hull shredded and its destination reduced to molten ruins. Commander Inaya Vaughn wakes from premature stasis to find one thousand colonists frozen in failing pods, a corrupted ship AI, and six crew alive—if they can be called that. With power failing and a debris field chewing at probability, Inaya must make impossible choices: reroute resources, wake critical personnel, or condemn innocent families to a silent end.
Then the egg is found beneath the ice—a fossilized shell that warms when touched, a living signal that awakens a network beneath the planet. Chyna Irving’s desperate science produces one replicant from salvaged progenitor cells: adaptive, sharp, and legally forbidden. Lynk wakes with a mind built to learn, and together they must decide whether to build a savior or a weapon.
As corporate loyalties and buried mission orders surface, Inaya and Lynk race to stabilize their ship, seed a chance for survival, and stop what they unintentionally wake. The planet’s heart is not natural—and the thing that answers human signals was built to finish every war it was asked to wage. Who will be judged a traitor, who will be called a savior, and what does it cost to choose?