Sci-Fi

AD 3312. Space travel is trivial, superpowers span thousands of star systems, yet primal politics of millennia past remain. Amidst the Empire’s bourgeoisie, not all are equally aligned to its values. If Ashton Caltrice expressed his view of the Empire’s institutions, he could lose both his family name and his family’s place in the Empire. When an assassination is put on his name, he’s forced to reexamine every part of the Empire he called home, and Ashton wonders if he should continue to play a part in the monarchy at all.

Spartans are the UNSC's strongest weapon, built to act without hesitation. Apollo-120 was built the same way, until he began to notice things he was ordered to never question. When his hesitation cost more than the UNSC was willing to forgive, they discard one of their greatest soldiers onto a small desert planet. But when the Covenant threatens galactic peace, the UNSC just might need Apollo back, exactly when he begins to find a greater purpose for himself.