Crying Stars

"All the greatest adventures of mankind emerge from the dreams of brave hearts, and are doomed to be bribed by the fatuous desires of the sinister souls.

All the marvelous designs of God echoed the eternal rhythm of life and death, and are rendered meanings by the briefness of their sparks.

All the glorious songs of the past sang of a heaven of towers of gold and crowns, and are forgotten by the rims of time and tides.

When the heaven's blazes rain down from the sky; when all the technologies transformed the dreams into monsters, what is there left for us to find in the unknown?

Power, desires, dignity, and unanimity.

The ship of Theseus is now the hand of the false God, opening our path to wealth and power."

2068, ten years after the War of Freedom, it seemed that peace and prosperity had returned to prepare the humanity for the future. Fusion energy, advanced robotics, genetic engineering, and upcoming space exploration had pushed humans' ambition to an unprecedented level. Anna and Kyle were two of the lead scientists from the UCOG--the current biggest tech corporation in the world. With their envious wealth and social status, they were living in an extravagant lifestyle of privileges and luxuries. While UCOG focused most of their resources in new-generation weapons and genetic technologies while seeking to expand the human race to the universe beyond. Anna and Kyle found themselves entangled in the brewing storms between the corporation and the government. Politics flared from the hungering mouths, snarling to consume the wealth and the power; science paled before the decades of deteriorated ethics, succumbing to be the tools of the desires; lost civilizations emerged from the darkness, trembling the whole world with the revelations of mankind's creators.

After Anna's research project in Antarctica, which had uncovered the first wreckage of an extraterrestrial spaceship, she was called to a meeting with the executives of the UCOG. However, the meeting was not at all what she had expected. Shortly after, the Pentagon of the United States was attacked by a mysterious group of terrorists, and the UCOG was accused of being behind it. Suddenly, chaos returned once again and stirred the whole world. As the events escalated, Anna and Kyle found themselves on the brink of death as they realized a horrifying truth--what if all these events were connected somehow? A strange masked man saved Anna from a desperate situation, but why? There was someone in the dark pulling the strings of everything, and Anna decided to bring him/her to justice.

As the ambitions and projects of genetic engineering were slowly unveiled, they found out even their own births were not that simple...
Perhaps this wheel of time and the shadow of fate had been casted long before they were born.
As new ambition rose, the space was waiting quietly for every hungering mouth. A much bigger chessboard had been set up. What would come next?

The debuting novel of E.G. Athrun.
"An astounding beginning of an epic journey."--Kevin Martie
"We are witnessing perhaps the next Game of Thrones."--Tyler Nowell

"Six paths towards thy kingdom of heaven;
Six mouths thirst for the power of beyond;
Six children born under six suns of grey;
Enchanted with the bindings of all stars;
One king that rules them all.
From darkness destiny wanes.
By life mother conjures,
By death all ends,
By time knowledge lingers,
All in one come thy atlas of faith.
In thy womb we birth, in thy wrath we revenge.
In the blood of our kings,
We call upon thee,
One true queen of life and death!"