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Chapter One — Dock Nine

The first shot of the revolution was fired by a man who had no wish to be remembered.

His name was Orin Vale, though history would later lose that detail beneath cleaner words: massacre, provocation, outrage, tyranny. In the broadcasts that followed, he became a symbol. To the Dominion, he was a frightened customs marine defending lawful authority. To the colonies, he was the hand of empire made flesh, the moment when tax became blood.

But before he became any of those things, Orin Vale was twenty-three standard years old, hungry, exhausted, and standing in the gray sleet of Calderon Dock Nine with his pulse beating too hard behind his eyes.

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