THE AETHERION KILL "They siphoned the stars. She’s taking them back." A dying universe. A stolen god. A girl who refuses to be fuel. For centuries, the Dominion has kept the galaxy running on a singular, shimmering resource: Aether. Siphoned from living celestial entities known as Aetherions, this starlight powers the fleets, the cities, and the iron-fisted rule of the Directorate. But the stars are going dark. The "Harvest" is failing. And the empire is getting desperate. Kaelin Voss is a nobody—a scrap-rat scavenging the rusted bones of mining ships on the desert moon of Jurong-9. Abandoned by her mother, a high-ranking Dominion General, Kaelin’s only goal is to survive the dust. But when she discovers a Null-Core—a legendary, concentrated shard of the first Aetherion—everything changes. The Core doesn't just provide power. It chooses. Now bonded to Zephyr, an ancient and volatile voidborn entity, Kaelin is no longer just a scavenger. She is a beacon for every hunter in the galaxy. Thrust into the elite Aetherion Citadel, she must navigate a world of lethal high-stakes flight sims, treacherous cadet politics, and the shadow of the mother who left her to rot. Her only ally is Riven Thalor, a disgraced cadet with a blood-feud against the Voss lineage and a mastery of the very wings Kaelin is struggling to control. Between them lies a decade of secrets and a heat that threatens to ignite the vacuum. As the Directorate prepares for the Full Harvest—a final, catastrophic extraction that will leave the galaxy in eternal night—Kaelin and her squad of outcasts must decide: Do they fly for the empire that broke them, or do they burn it all down to save the light? The Aetherion Trilogy (Completed) Book 1: THE AETHERION KILL Book 2: FRACTURED STARS Book 3: ECLIPSE THRONE