Star Veil
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Last published Wed, Sep 21, 2022
Sora Yamamoto, a young officer in the Universal Exploratory Corps is thrust into a desperate fight to save her species from extinction and learn the dark truth about her father's past and an alien machine known as the Star Veil.
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