3 parts Ongoing When Earth sends four astronauts to secretly monitor an alien construct hidden beyond Jupiter, the mission is cloaked in silence. For three years they wait, isolated and forgotten. But the day the construct awakens, the crew discovers the truth: humanity's first war in the stars has already begun. With Earth's defenses collapsing and an alien fleet rising from the shadows, the Ardent Dawn must choose-fight an impossible enemy, or watch their world fall.