The Morrow Chain Saga

After surviving the first breach of Kharon Vale, Captain Ryder McKennick and the crew of the ICS Wayfarer Absolon discover the real horror was never left behind on the planet. It came back with them.

As the ship pulls away from Kharon orbit, strange route logic begins spreading through the vessel’s architecture, infected crewmen carry dark residual traces in their lungs, and the recovered alien command teeth start learning from every decision the crew makes. Corridors become battlefields. Vent systems become hunting grounds. Machinery begins to hesitate. And the line between biology, command, and architecture starts to collapse.

To survive, Ryder and his officers must do more than contain an outbreak. They must learn how to mislead an intelligence that thinks in routes, hierarchy, and answers. With AEGIS, the ship’s evolving artificial intelligence, alongside ruthless engineers, doctors, security officers, and Builder machines, the Absolon turns itself into hostile terrain—building false ascents, synthetic command lures, anti-memory conditioning, and kill chambers designed to force alien logic into traps of human design.

But every victory teaches the enemy something in return.