The Sundered Stars (en Inglés) - Celiel Dreadmyre

Three friends. Three fractured loyalties. One galaxy coming apart at the seams.

Lukas Valerius, Clara Vance, and Lewis grew up beneath the glittering rings of Aethelburg, a neutral station built to keep rival powers talking before they reached for weapons. Then Pioneer Station burns, the Solarian Hegemony names the strike necessary, and the fragile peace that held their lives together begins to fail.

Lukas is pulled deeper into a military machine that rewards precision and punishes conscience. Clara enters the Confederacy's diplomatic war, where every alliance has a hidden price and every ideal must survive contact with hunger, fear, and political betrayal. Lewis returns to the Outer Rim, where survival depends on salvaged parts, hard bargains, and the dangerous choice to shelter people the empires would rather erase.

As the Hegemony expands and Voss's Directorate bloc twists the crisis for its own power, secrets surface that could expose atrocities buried beneath official language. Refugees, pilots, diplomats, smugglers, and broken fleets converge on Gant Reach, where the next battle may decide whether the galaxy is ruled by order, carved apart by ambition, or held together by those stubborn enough to choose each other.

The Sundered Stars is a political space opera about friendship under pressure, moral injury, wartime compromise, and the cost of refusing to become the thing you hate.