The Copper Navigation Ledger

About this book

In the rigid, tradition-bound hierarchy of the Aurelian Fleet—a massive star-faring armada modeled after early-modern maritime courts—seventeen-year-old Silas survives as a soot-stained hydroponic scavenger. His brutal existence is shattered when he is violently drafted into the elite Grand Astrometric Conservatory. Thrust into a lethal social minefield of silk pressure-gowns and astrolabe-driven cartography, Silas struggles to survive the deadly etiquette and ration politics of his supposed superiors. When his unrefined but sharp technical skills lead to the accidental unmasking of falsified stellar-decay logs kept by the ruling Admiralty, he realizes the elite have been engineering systemic scarcity to maintain power over the starving outer colonies. When a devastating meteoroid blackout plunges the fleet into chaos, Silas is forced into a fragile alliance with Maeve, a disgraced route-planner, and Torren, a cynical protocol enforcer. Together, they must brave oxygen-deprived sub-observatories to recover the true ancestral void-maps. To broadcast the corrected coordinates to the dying colonies, Silas must survive a brutal winter tribunal, decoding complex mechanical arrays and assuming a dormant noble mantle to tear down a rotting legacy built on lies.

Book details

Genres:

Historical Fiction, Space Opera, Science Fiction

Language:

en

Published:

2026-04-29

Content rating:

R