A story about ashes and ghosts.
In the galaxy of the 25th century, the heroic legends of the past have become extinct. In the galaxy torn apart by "Operation Thunder", there are only two cold gods left: the central intelligence of Arcadia that rules the West with absolute logic, and the Mechanical Empress of the Galactic Republic who enslaves the East with aesthetic tyranny.
And in the gap between the two giant steel beasts, in the forgotten refugee area, Ai Li Tian Xingzhe is trying to survive.
She was not a savior, not a Jedi Master, just an orphan who survived the Purge that destroyed her childhood. Wearing a jumpsuit stained with engine oil and holding a scarlet lightsaber as a tool, she drove the dilapidated cargo ship "Endurance" and scavenged for a living among the ruins of the interstellar world. She learned to hide like a mouse and disappear like a ghost.
But fate is a cruel writer. A routine salvage mission involved her in a conspiracy across the galaxy. From the hunting grounds of the Tov warlords, to Tirash Ver's gallery of pain, to the gilded cage of cold perfection in Arcadia. Ai Li was forced to gather a group of exiles who were as broken as she was: a clone trooper with no past, a sharpshooter who had lost his faith, and a self-exiled monster.
In this long cold winter, Ai Li must make a choice: continue to be a ghost living in the darkness, or ignite that weak and dangerous final spark that may illuminate the way home?
This is the long winter. The memory of spring is gone, only the embers remain.
Concept: the demythologization of heroism, survival, the weight of memory and the false binary opposition of "cage" and "maze"