Book 1 · Published
Conflict Space
Swarm of the Hive
Captain Daniel Miller leads a recon squad into the cave system beneath Outpost 7. What they find inside isn’t hostile. It’s organized.
Captain Daniel Miller leads a recon squad into the cave system beneath Outpost 7. What they find inside isn’t hostile. It’s organized.
Outpost 7 sits on the rim of a colony the rest of humanity has forgotten about — a perimeter sector kept alive by fusion cores, prefab walls, and the soldiers who patrol them at 3 AM under twin amber-violet suns.
Captain Daniel Miller has been doing those rounds for years. He knows every panel, every airflow seam, every dust mote that drifts through the lamp cones. He also knows when something stops behaving like an environment and starts behaving like an intelligence.
When the readings under the Hollows shift, command sends his squad down. The cave system below the outpost wasn’t supposed to contain anything more than mineral pockets. It contains a Hive. The Hive contains a question. And the answer is going to cost the colony far more than it knows how to pay.
Conflict Space: Swarm of the Hive is the opening salvo of a planned multi-book military sci-fi saga. It is also the source text for Terran Studio’s in-production animated series.
The decking beneath him vibrated ever so faintly from the fusion core’s operation, a low-frequency thrumming that resonated through every surface and into his bones. The Hollows — Perimeter Sector 7 was one of many areas under constant scrutiny for structural integrity; any weakness here could compromise not just this sector but potentially the entire colony infrastructure.
Miller moved with practiced ease along the narrow corridor lined with prefabricated panels, their surfaces cool to the touch even after months of habitation. The faint hum from below provided a steady metronome that set his pace and grounded him in the reality of this alien environment, where survival depended on every carefully engineered system working flawlessly.
Dust motes danced in the weak light cast by portable lamps scattered along the corridor, highlighting the fine particles suspended in the air as if under an invisible spotlight. The glow was amber-violet — a stark reminder that they were far from Earth’s familiar solar spectrum. Shadows here had soft violet edges, and surfaces carried an ambient warmth only this world could offer.
He paused at a junction where three corridors branched out like broken roots in search of soil. Each path led to another segment of the perimeter. Each equally vital. And every one of them was about to matter more than he could possibly know.
The novel’s prologue is the first arc of the series. Stills locked, score in build, voice cast in audition. Episode 1 lands in 2026.
See progressThe next entry in the Conflict Space saga is in active development. Title and release window to be announced.
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