Trying to be better

In the distant future, humanity has clawed its way into the galactic stage—barely. Scattered across space and contracted to serve ancient alien empires, humans live on the edge of survival, their labor exploited by megacorporations like Amazing Solutions Inc. For Heph, a middle-aged engineer stranded alone on a decaying space station orbiting the blue giant Deneb, life is an endless grind of patching up ancient solar arrays that powers the decadence of an other race.

Against the backdrop of decaying technology, bureaucratic apathy, and a galaxy teetering on the brink, Heph might just become the spark that challenges the very system that has crushed him—and humanity—for so long. Whether he succeeds, or whether the galaxy burns, is a question even he doesn’t yet have the answer to.DISCLAIMER: My first Story, so please be gentle.