Navarchus (Paperback)
Language: English
Published by Independently Published, 2025
Series: Book 1 of 2 - Navarchus
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Paperback. Navarchus is set in a future shaped by the interplay of light and time, where humanity navigates Lorentzian waveguides-pathways etched by ancient starlight that allow direct passage into the past. But the breakthrough comes at a price: the journey is one-way.Unmanned probes have tested these fragile corridors. The first crewed vessel, Fora, vanished. Now Kairos will go farther, guided not only by machines but by a navigator trained to sense what no system can: the moment the universe allows passage. At its helm is Navarchus Li Meng, whose discipline and instinct define a new kind of exploration.Years later, Earth launches Chronos-the first return-capable beacon ship-to retrieve Kairos and uncover the deeper forces at work near HD 40307. At the farthest edge of knowledge, the crew confronts questions that reach beyond science: of time, identity, and the fragile threads that bind consciousness across the stars.Navarchus is a story of exploration, sacrifice, and the uncertain cost of discovery-a novel where first contact is not conquest, but a quiet reckoning. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.…
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- Title
- Navarchus (Paperback)
- Author
- Rolf Obermaier
- Publisher
- Independently Published
- Publication year
- 2025
- Condition
- new
- Binding
- Paperback
- Language
- English
- ISBN 13
- 9798288695414
- Series
- Book 1 of 2: Navarchus
Navarchus is a hard science fiction novel about time, distance, and the cost of contact.
Humanity has learned to navigate spacetime not by outrunning light, but by following the history it carries. By reading the gravitational record preserved in ancient starlight, scientists have opened a path across forty-two light-years and decades of time. The mission is unprecedented. The objective is clear: send the Chronos beacon ahead, bring the great ship Aether behind it, recover the lost Kairos expedition, secure the return route, and prove that temporal navigation can carry humanity farther than ever before.
Instead, they arrive in a system that is already listening.
Four years earlier, Li Meng and the stranded Kairos crew reached HD 40307 and survived where no one should have been able to survive. Beneath an alien star, on the surface of a world that slowly stopped feeling foreign, they began to detect patterns in the deep structure of spacetime itself: seventeen gravitational sequences that did not behave like weather, noise, or any known natural process. What began as anomaly became pattern. Pattern became response. And response began to look dangerously like intelligence.
By the time Chronos and Aether arrive, the rescue mission is already obsolete.
The newcomers bring urgency, scale, and human certainty into a system that has taught Li Meng’s crew a harder lesson: not everything unknown is empty, and not every silence is permission. The signals surrounding HD 40307 are patient, structured, and reactive to disturbance. What the Kairos expedition learned slowly, the new arrivals may learn all at once — that first contact is not a moment of triumph, but a test of discipline.
As scientists, navigators, and commanders struggle to understand what has been waiting in the system long before they knew how to hear it, old assumptions begin to fail. The mission becomes something larger and stranger than rescue. It becomes a confrontation with the possibility that intelligence may exist on scales and in forms humanity is barely equipped to recognize.
Navarchus is a novel of discovery, restraint, and the unsettling possibility that the universe is not empty, only patient.
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