GATE: First Encounter

A stranger in his own body...

An intruder in his own mind...

Okan had no idea he was living the last ordinary day of his life. When he opened his eyes, he was no longer in his own bed but a captive on Aetherion-a distant world beyond the stars.

How he got there was a void; what awaited him, a mystery.

Soon he understood: the brutal warriors around him were not the true threat. The real enemy crouched in the darkest corner of his mind-an alien consciousness that whispered to him, a shadow intent on claiming his body.

The struggle to survive quickly turned into a harsher truth: he was not a fugitive, but a test subject.

The trial he faces is no mere endurance test-it is a fracture of destiny. And the plans laid for him were set long ago.

GATE is a dark tale that melds body-horror possession and military science fiction with an intimate character drama.

It is a journey from the deepest recesses of the subconscious to the ruthless reality of an alien star system-a transformation story written at the crossroads of biology and technology, will and fate, and the clash of two foreign powers housed within a single human being.

This war won't be visible from the outside.

Because the greatest variable is hidden within.