MyrddraalFade
Teen (violence and peril, no explicit content), Violence, space combat, implied mass casualties avoided by extreme measures
Vasiliki Ioannidou was supposed to be done with war.
Ex-United Earth Defence Force, now officially "Custodial Services" on Andromeda Research Annex Sigma-4, her job is simple: keep the floors clean and the scientists happy. Let the Galactic Synod worry about politics and security.
When the notorious Black Wave Corsairs slam boarding clamps onto the hidden station, everything goes wrong at once. Comms are jammed, the security grid is compromised, and a pirate strike team heads straight for Theta-Sector- home of the experimental Psi-Lattice, a research project powerful enough to crack worlds.
With command hesitating and enemies already inside, the only person in the right place with the right access is the one nobody's looking at: the human janitor.
Vasiliki still has her old UEDF exosuit, her mop, and something the pirates and politicians both underestimate- a Deathworlder's instinct for cleaning up the worst messes. When she unlocks buried human infrastructure codes and triggers a Denial Protocol that dumps an entire research sector into a black hole, the station is saved... and the shockwaves hit the Galactic Synod harder than any boarding torpedo.
Now the galaxy has to face an uncomfortable truth: if this is what a janitor does when things go bad... what else are humans capable of?