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The Heir of Iron Protocol Book One of The Velos Archives In a galaxy ruled by memory and empire, history isn’t just rewritten—it’s weaponized. Cairn Velos has spent his life hiding from a legacy he barely understands. Labeled a descendant of traitors, his family's name was wiped clean from the archives—erased, condemned, forgotten. Until the day he accidentally awakens a buried AI—and unlocks Protocol 09-A. Suddenly, he’s the last heir of a house the Empire tried to delete. Now hunted, manipulated, and forced into alliances with political predators, Cairn must navigate a labyrinth of corrupted memory, synthetic ghosts, and buried war crimes. At the center of it all: a vault of forbidden knowledge hidden on the desolate planet Vyre—and a revelation that could fracture the Concord from within. Some histories were erased for a reason. Cairn is about to find out why. For fans of morally gray protagonists, sentient ships, ancient conspiracies, and archives that fight back. Comparable works include The Book of the New Sun by Gene Wolfe; The Broken Earth Trilogy by N.K. Jemisin; An Unkindness of Ghosts by Rivers Solomon; The Scythe series by Neal Shusterman

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