The Wrong Side
by R. S. Breed
The war was the lie. The cost is real. The chair comes at a price.
Stranded deep in the far pocket, the crew of the Endurance learns what their first choices actually bought them — and who, aboard their own hull, was never quite who they claimed to be. The story they were told about the enemy does not survive contact with the truth.
Command is not a thing you take once. It is a thing the ship asks for again, at the worst possible moment, and the answer costs more than anyone is ready to pay. The chair changes hands. The price is the pivot of the whole trilogy.
Era
2241 – 2242
Series
Book Two of Spent Light
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Who you’ll meet
Artefacts from this book
The archive →In-universe records, blueprints, and documents drawn from The Wrong Side — the institutional paper trail behind the story.
Ascendant Combatant — Threat Assessment
A sensor reconstruction of the enemy: rail penetrators, pattern-round magazines, wake-mapping doctrine. Approximated, unconfirmed, and out-gunning everything the Endurance has left.
Naomi Hale — Science Log
N. Hale
A scientist keeping her hands steady on numbers that frighten her: a floor that climbs with every fold, Earth's own species on an impossible world, and a proof recovered from an enemy vault.
SYS-12 Dead-Star System — Survey Chart
A survey chart of a system that has already ended: a guttering terminal primary, airless worlds, and an inner field of ancient hulls entered, stripped and emptied — every one, in the same patient way. Who did it, and when, is not on the chart.
The Orun Channel — Pressure-Rig Log
Naral
First contact with the Orun, conducted not in words but in pressure and weight. The translator returns NULL. What finally lands is a grief, transmitted whole.