In the year 2242, humanity has been pushed to the brink of extinction by the ‘Goliath,’ an alien race of colossal bio-mechanical war machines. Our last hope lies in the ‘Aegis’ project, a new generation of mecha created from reverse-engineered Goliath technology. However, the Aegis units require a neural link with their pilots, a process so dangerous that only a handful of cadets have survived the synchronization.
Kaelen, a young and disgraced ex-pilot, is haunted by the memory of a disastrous simulation that killed his entire squad. He carries the weight of their deaths and the scorn of his peers. But when the outer defenses of Neo-Arcadia, humanity’s last bastion, are breached by a new and terrifyingly powerful Goliath, Kaelen is the only one who can pilot the experimental ‘Damocles,’ a rogue Aegis unit with a forbidden and unstable power source.
To save humanity, Kaelen must not only conquer the alien threat but also his own inner demons. The Damocles offers him a chance at redemption, but its unstable core threatens to consume him, just as it did his predecessors. With the fate of the world resting on his shoulders, Kaelen must dance on the razor’s edge between salvation and self-destruction.
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