FOULD//RUNNER
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Last published Sat, Nov 15, 2025
Two scavengers discover an abandoned Ares blacksite in the Deep Black, unlocking a forgotten navigation system that can rewrite how ships move through space-if it doesn't kill them first. What begins as a routine salvage run becomes a race against silence, syndicate hunters, and buried war tech as the crew of the Nightjar awaken something old enough to remember how the universe used to be drawn.
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