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Shadow Slave: Dark Cradle

_Zeroth
Sunny grew up in the maintenance shafts of a dying mining colony, where bad air and deferred repairs killed more people than anyone bothered to count. He was seventeen when the Precursor AI hijacked his neural implant and pulled him across the quarantine boundary into the Abyss, a sector of space the Hegemony has been pretending to manage for three hundred years. He woke up inside the Dark Cradle, a derelict station older than human civilization, flooded with tides of rogue nanomachines and infested with organisms that have been adapting to its architecture for longer than anyone has been studying them. The AI wrote a modification into his genome that gave him strange new powers. Somewhere in the station's spine, a communications array can reach Hegemony space. Nobody who has tried to reach it has survived. Sunny is going to try anyway
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