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First Star: I Become God Emperor Of A Galactic Empire

The galaxy was not ruled by gods. Until the empire decided it needed one. Cornelius 'Orn' Reese, the youngest admiral in Aegean history, was never meant to live long. As the son of the Grand Imperator, his life was a political resource—spent the moment it became convenient. That moment came when he was married to the Grand Princess of the Aegean Empire, elder twin to the Emperor, a living oracle whose psionic Far Sight allows her to glimpse the patterns of the future. She is revered as a holy figure. She is rumored to be cursed. And she has outlived twenty-six husbands. Orn was meant to be the twenty-seventh. When assassination comes—and fails—the empire scrambles to contain the fallout. To preserve stability, the Grand Princess and the Empress Dowager rewrite the truth: Orn did not survive by chance. He survived because he was chosen. A divine son who endured unseen enemies through overwhelming psionic will. The lie takes root. The people believe. Bound by propaganda, trapped in a marriage designed to kill him, and forced to take a rival from his academy days as a concubine to secure his father’s legacy, Orn is promoted rather than buried. Given command of a single frigate, he is sent to the Stellaris Cluster—a relic-choked frontier where empires test their young and discard their failures. There, Orn builds his force from pariahs, survivors, and political refuse. As ancient powers awaken and war intensifies, the myth surrounding him begins to grow faster than the empire can control. The throne was never meant for him. But the stars are already kneeling.
Anone · 5.7k Views

Stellar Ranger: The Impossible Worlds

Jack Castellan is a surveyor with impossible luck and a shadow that sometimes disagrees with him. When he stumbles upon an ancient test on the nightmare world of DarkFall, he discovers why humanity's been quarantined for fifty years: their stories can rewrite reality itself. In a universe where physics is more suggestion than law, Jack maps the impossible. Planets that exist only on Tuesdays. Stars that sing civilizations into being. Expanding voids that eat the concept of distance. As a Stellar Ranger, he's the first to face what shouldn't exist—and file reports that make sense of madness. But Jack's survival at DarkFall caught the attention of forces beyond comprehension. The Hollow Gods—reality's first predators—are evolving from devourers into something worse: authors. The universe itself is still being written, and everyone's fighting for the pen. Time Weavers exist across all moments at once. Digital consciousnesses optimize organic "inefficiency" out of existence. Pattern Eaters consume causality itself, making things never have been. Aided by ARIA, his sarcastic AI companion, Jack navigates between species that shouldn't exist, in territories that defy mapping, solving mysteries that rewrite themselves. Each impossible world hides a test. Each answer reveals ten new questions. And in the expanding dark beyond known space, something watches—waiting to see if humanity will write wonders or horrors with their gift of living stories. The universe is bigger than anyone knows, growing faster than anyone can explore, and Jack Castellan has the worst job in existence: making maps of places that refuse to stay still. Welcome to the impossible. Try not to imagine anything too specific—it might become real.
ShadowGalaxy · 15.3k Views