Citizens of the Second Class
A Galactic Empire AdventureBy Thalia Merrick
Length11h 41m
About this audiobook
One invention should not cost a woman her name. On Kestrel Reach, engineer Sera Ondras builds a water purifier from salvage and stubbornness, and it works. It saves imperial lives. In return, the empire takes her patent, her credit, and, under a statute three generations old, her legal personhood. The Vel, her resin-blooded people, were recorded as a resolved matter long before she was born. The paperwork simply catches up. Corin Vale, a registry clerk who files the forms that erase her, knows exactly what those forms do. Behind Magistrate Hessik Dorn sits a colonial machine that needs the Vel to stay invisible, and a core auditor named Pell who has begun asking why a solved problem keeps generating new files. Sera wants her name on her own work. Nela, her grandmother, wants the old debts counted. Drem Okk wants the shipyards to stop. None of them intend to start a rebellion. The empire intends it for them. Some citizens are counted. Some are counted out. Sera is about to make the difference legible.
Audiobook details
GenreFantasy
Length11 hrs 41 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateOct 22, 2026
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1The Water Thief
21The Audit Begins
2Resolved Matter
22The Deal Refused
3Registry of the Missing
23Shipyard General Strike
4Grandmother's Ledger
24Negotiating with Rain
5Foreman's Arithmetic
25Corin Confesses
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6The Petition Room
26The Water Contract
7A Date That Isn't
27Grandmother's Verdict
8Clean Water, Dirty Money
28The Temple District
9Journalist at the Door
29Stones in Evidence
10The Broadcast
30Pell's Ledger
11Riot Insurance
31Captain Ryn's Report
12Holding Cell Seven
32The Council Hearing
13The Clerk's Bargain
33No Such Date
14Archive of Small Deaths
34Magistrate Falls
15The Land Claim
35The Clearing That Wasn't
16Captain Ryn's Choice
36The Real Hearing
17Two Hundred Lamps
37Citizens of the Second Class
18The March
38Half a Loaf
19Aftermath Arithmetic
39What Corin Filed
20Auditor from the Core
40About the Author
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