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Kael Voss, a lowly asteroid miner, dies in a reactor explosion only to awaken in a virtual galaxy called StarCore—a hyper-realistic simulation where players control starships and battle for cosmic supremacy. But StarCore isn’t just a game: it’s a real alien construct harvesting human minds to power an interstellar weapon. Armed with a glitching interface that grants him forbidden abilities, Kael must rise from a nobody to a galactic legend to save humanity. His only ally? A mysterious NPC pilot, Aria, whose sentience defies the system—and whose secrets might break his heart. Can Kael rewrite his fate, or will the galaxy’s greatest game claim his soul?
