The Plasmoidian Empire: A Rift Walker Saga Adventure (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9798249069148)

The Plasmoidian Empire is a tidal wave of living metal and burning plasma, moving through the galaxy with the mechanical indifference of a locust swarm. They don't want your land, your gold, or your loyalty. They want the atoms that hold your world together.

Imagine the bones of a skyscraper groaning as steel girders are ripped through concrete like skeletons escaping skin. This is the Midnight Harvest.

• The Siphon-Harps: Massive vessels that hum at a frequency that shatters glass.

• The Resource Node: To the Empire, your home is just a gas station; your history is just raw copper and lithium to be siphoned into the sky.

• The Scorched Exit: Once a world is "unplugged" of its metal, the invaders ignite the atmosphere-leaving behind a barren, airless husk.

They are a biological nightmare fused with industrial steam-tech.

• The Pilot: A translucent, cyan-tinted octo-squid encased in a pressurized glass dome.

• The Machine: Hulking brass-and-steel frames vibrating with the drone of internal pistons.

• The Hive: From 7-foot Scouts to the 50-foot Behemoths, they operate with a cold, synchronized silence.

On the backwater world of Aethel, a man named Silas has done the impossible. He built a sanctuary the Empire's sensors couldn't see. While the world above was reduced to dust and plastic, Silas was busy drafting the Aethel Protocol-the first manual for killing a god.

"To the Empire, we are the rust on the gears of the universe. It's time to jam the machine."

A story of survival, scavenged genius, and a galaxy finding its voice in the dark.