The Mandate of Order

Terranaut Mirror Saga Book One

By: Lennart Lopin

Narrated by: Virtual Voice

They built civilization from the ruins. Now something has come to tear it down.

For five centuries, the Council of Corporations has held humanity together. A thousand worlds. Hundreds of billions of lives scattered across the stars. Transit lanes, orbital tethers, supply chains measured to the last calorie - the machinery of survival maintained by the few men and women willing to make the calculations no one else can stomach.

Director Max von Valdec stands at the center of that machinery. Beside him: Mandorla, the intelligence chief who sees threats before they exist. Fay Gray, who commands the Guard and has never flinched. Schnayder, who manages colonial trade with trembling hands and flawless numbers. Together, they have kept the lights on, the food moving, and the wars from spreading through relentless, unglamorous competence.

Then Syrta explodes.

A colonial uprising on a world that barely registers in the quarterly reports becomes something else entirely when a young PSI-capable Driver named David terGorden walks out of the burning streets of Memphis and begins to reshape reality itself. The Council watches their Destroyer prototypes rendered obsolete. Their Gray Guards frozen mid-stride. Their calculations made irrelevant by a force that does not negotiate, does not bargain, and does not care about supply chains.

Now the people who hold civilization together must decide: how do you govern a universe that has just changed its own rules?

And what are you willing to lose to keep the lights on for one more day?

The Mandate of Order is the first book in the Terranaut Mirror Saga.

Featuring photorealistic illustrations and technical cutaway diagrams.