Aphelion
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In the light of an old sun, a planet grows old, trapped within its own atmosphere. The people of Nebhala wait in anticipation until they can make their way into the unknown stretch of space that lies just out of reach.
Klyma Estra, an engineer and archaeologist, is aboard the first discovery mission to the uninhabited side of Nebhala. A crew of eight, the first to breach the first layer of the planets atmosphere, and the first to see the hidden abandoned city which enters into it's first years of the Summer Sunlight in over half a century.
But behind the Nebhala smog hides the rest of the the Baade Galaxy, where other planets and systems have also dedicated their resources to being able to enter the eerie Nebhala that has remained alone since the fall of the Monarchy.
A story of an adventure through space, a wild and disordered travel to the stars. To make the unknown, known. It will take her farther than she could ever have imagined.
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