In a far spiral arm, a once-gilded star-empire is coming apart like rotted silk. Two young hackers—lovers with too many secrets—work for a resistance that can’t afford heroes, only the desperate. Their jobs begin as clean digital thefts, then turn into blood-wet sabotage when the regime’s drones start hunting for bodies instead of passwords. As the galaxy’s infrastructure fails—air, water, medicine, memory itself—the couple must choose between saving each other or saving everyone else. In the end, love becomes a weapon: beautiful, illegal, and loud enough to wake dead worlds.