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Aurora Protocol

By Bloom, Jennifer M.

Aurora Protocol

By Bloom, Jennifer M.

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Aurora I undergoes a transformation as momentous as any leap to the stars. The battered Gravitomagnetic Field Generator, source of so many sleepless nights and fractured ribs, is stripped from the ship. In its place, Silicate bio-crystal gravity plates are installed, their alien pulse promising comfort and unsettling the veterans who learned to distrust every kindness gravity ever offered.
Victoria Carter, Lena Petrova, and Elias Vance, now marked by first contact, find themselves not just engineers but living treaties. Their new resonance grants them access and status, even as it divides the crew and fuels political fractures back on Earth. The Terran Concordance is no longer united, "Bridge" advocates push for full integration with Silicate technology, while the "Purity" bloc demands containment, control, and the erasure of those who've changed.
Each chapter finds the crew negotiating new lines, between trust and suspicion, past and future, flesh and crystal. Political intrigue simmers in Luna's chambers while Aurora's decks become a battleground for identity and survival. As hidden weapons are installed, loyalties tested, and alliances made with caution, the crew must decide what it means to be human in a world where humanity is being rewritten, one silent resonance at a time.
Gifts and Burdens is the story of a ship that is no longer entirely human, and a crew who must learn whether the bridge they've become can hold, or whether the future demands something stranger, and stronger, than unity alone.
Product details
Number of Pages:
108
Release Date:
2025-12-17
Publication Date:
2025-12-17
Publisher:
Jennifer M. Bloom
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
1971264350
ISBN13:
9781971264356
Weight:
319 g
Height:
157 cm
Width:
235 cm
Thickness:
11 cm
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