MyrddraalFade
#HFY
When the Autophage Swarm pushes the Galactic Council to the brink of extinction, all eyes turn to the youngest, wildest species in the alliance: humanity. Ambassador Leila Moreno and Admiral Elias Rourke have fought a losing war for forty years, watching one world after another fall to an enemy that learns faster than anyone can adapt.
But humanity has been holding something back. Hidden inside the gate network that binds a hundred thousand worlds is a secret human-designed backdoor: Project Damocles, a distributed "Sword Lattice" that can turn every FTL gate into a weapon sharper than any fleet. There's only one catch-Damocles can't run on automatons. It needs living minds to climb onto the blade and wield it.
As the Swarm closes to two jumps from Earth, Leila, Elias, and millions of volunteers across the stars must decide what their lives are worth. To stop the Autophage, they will burn themselves into the infrastructure of the galaxy and learn what it truly means for a so-called "Deathworld species" to stand between annihilation and everyone else. The sword has always hung over their heads. Now, humanity is ready to take the hilt.
Please Note some names have been borrowed from other #HFY because they were better names than I could think of. All hail their creators.