The penal labor colony called Solstice lies nearly 500 light years from Earth. For decades, the planet was used by the fascist Terran Accord as a dumping ground for prisoners, political and otherwise — that is, until the prisoners organized and won a hard-fought revolution against their corporate overlords and took the planet for themselves. The Accord, on the back foot in their war against the Affini, struck back from orbit, and fired a single shot that almost rendered the planet uninhabitable. For an aging revolutionary at the heart of it all, the arrival of the Affini means salvation for her people, but it also marks the beginning of a new fight for liberation.

This story is set in the Human Domestication Guide collaborative universe. Details and other works in the universe can be found at https://humandomestication.guide

(18+, Very Slow Burn (175k words). All chapters come with content warnings; chapters with heavy sexual content will be specifically called out.)