The Breakaway Stars
About the Series
A political and military science fiction trilogy about rebellion, republic, and the last shadow of empire.
The Premise
The Rebellion Won. Now Comes the Harder Part.
For three centuries, the Dominion held the stars. Thirteen worlds paid its taxes, garrisoned its soldiers, and obeyed its silence. Then, in a single generation, they didn’t.
The breakaway was not a single moment. It was an accumulation — of grievances compounded by generations, of obligations that had become indistinguishable from subjugation, of leaders who finally decided that the cost of endurance was higher than the cost of resistance. When the Thirteen broke, they broke together. The rebellion was costly, brutal, and eventually successful.
The Breakaway Stars begins after the victory. The Dominion’s forces have withdrawn to their core systems. The Thirteen hold the space they won. And now, with the war behind them and everything else still ahead, the hardest question presents itself:
What kind of republic are we building — and who decides?
The Powers
The trilogy is built around four forces — each with its own logic, its own interests, and its own idea of what the future should look like.
The Dominion
The old order. Three centuries of rule.
The Dominion is not an evil empire in the simple sense. It is an old order — vast, bureaucratic, convinced of its own necessity. Its withdrawal is not a surrender. It is a repositioning. It remembers everything.
The Thirteen
The breakaway worlds. The republic’s foundation.
Thirteen worlds united by rebellion — but not by agreement. They share a common enemy and a common victory. They do not share a common vision for what comes next.
The Republic
The thing being built. The thing under threat.
The republic is not a given. It is a choice made under pressure, repeatedly, by people who disagree about almost everything except that they do not want the Dominion back.
The Remnant
What the Dominion left behind.
Not every instrument of Dominion power withdrew cleanly. Sleeper networks, embedded loyalists, unaccounted fleets. The Remnant is not a unified faction — it is a condition. And it is worsening.
What the Series Is About
The Breakaway Stars is not a series about good versus evil. It is a series about the difficulty of building lasting institutions, and the cost of failing to.
Rebellion & Its Aftermath
What happens to a revolutionary movement when it succeeds? The trilogy begins where most stories end — with the victory — and asks what comes next.
Republic & Self-Government
The hardest question is not how to win freedom but how to govern it. The Thirteen must build institutions that can contain disagreement without becoming instruments of suppression.
Duty & Sacrifice
The people who fought for the republic are not always the people best suited to govern it. The transition from warrior to statesman is neither automatic nor painless.
Begin with Book One
The Fire of Thirteen Suns is available now. The republic begins here.