The corporate fleet belonged to OmniCorp, the megaconglomerate that controlled seventy percent of off-world mining, terraforming rights, and the helium-3 trade that kept Earth’s fusion reactors breathing. Their ships were unmistakable: angular, obsidian-hulled behemoths studded with railgun batteries and gravitic lance emitters, each vessel named after myths of conquest—Titan’s Reach, Colossus Ascendant, Leviathan’s Claim. They had jumped in-system minutes after the Horizon,
