"Captain"

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In the midst of the Solar War, as the human race burns down its own worlds to cinders, each faction scrambling to end the bloodshed and stomp out the unforeseen forces emerging from caverns deep under Jupiter's moons, the Melds have reappeared. Natod Doublon is the lone human who knows of its implications for the system's fate, but he also happens to be trapped under Callisto's surface as hell-burners raze its cities, a few hours after confessing to treason before the entire Solar Autarchy. His godlike ambition unflinching, he waits for a miracle to let him out, so he can overthrow the Autarch and restore peace by killing all nonhuman dissidents. When a Meld breaks into his office, he knows the time has come. In a cubic universe at the core of a neutron star, Eternity's Traveler Paatit has reached his destination. He has explored the levels of the ocean, the skies, the space. Destiny calls, he has descended from space and broken through the walls of the Great Forest. But the unintended crimes he committed in space has brought down the wrath of the Treasurers on him, as instinct and primordial purpose forces him to grab a "box" and race through the crimson Forest. In a parallel universe, as battle rages above Mercury and a disgraced professor stands before the captain in a shipboard courtroom, the tendencies gathered from years of mind-altering work at a radiation-bombarded particle accelerator send him into a mental spiral that doesn't let him know if he has died or is stuck in limbospace for eternity.