—SUNS GO DARK—
CHAPTER ONE (v1.01)
Sun Thieves
Encircling a half-burned planet far past the known heliostasis was a superstructure that created suns. The first Emperor built the structure during untold generations passed.
If he had glanced to his left out the window, Virgil could have observed the tremendous ring, and her pocked machinery, and the one hundred and eight suns she birthed forth, hovering in a rigid dance around the planet below. Virgil could not be bothered with the sight. Virgil ignored the celestial bodies, ignored the air rank with wet metals, and ignored the rickety atmosphere drones buzzing overhead who struggled to keep the ring habitable for he and trillions more young souls. Virgil even ignored the author reading his alleged crimes back to him.
Virgil focused instead on how difficult it might be to steal one of those suns.
Just one sun!
