Fifty years after the opening of the hyperspace lanes, humanity's territory had already spread beyond the stars.
And the power-hungry, convinced they'd accumulated enough strength, could no longer hold back. They were ready to carve out a new era with their own hands.
War first descended on an overlooked corner of Federation territory.
A colony satellite far from the political center was destroyed in an instant, utterly unable to resist. Cities, streets, and tens of thousands of residents vanished into space. The only ones lucky enough to escape were the young people whose homes happened to have emergency escape pods.
Shuo Vilan Alvian was one of them.
As the satellite broke apart, he and his friend climbed into different escape pods.
They thought it was only a brief separation. No one could have guessed that from the moment the hatches closed, their lives would head in entirely different directions.
Over the next sixteen years, war swept across the stars and the old order crumbled in succession. Countless people who had once seemed untouchable fell from their thrones, while nobodies rose from the ruins to the center of the age.
And on the eve of his twenty-eighth birthday...
The boy who had escaped the destruction of the satellite became the supreme leader of humanity's new social order.
His name became a new taboo.
Theme: The freedom to choose for yourself.
