the premise
he lost everything.
now he runs cargo.
until he can't.
Gale Thunder used to be somebody. Fleet captain. Respected. Then he wasn't. Dishonorably discharged and stuck in the outer rim, he's been keeping the Persephone flying on fumes and bad decisions with a crew that has nowhere better to be.
They don't ask questions. They don't take sides. They survive.
Then a job pulls them into something none of them are equipped for — a conspiracy with consequences that reach way further than the outer rim. Now Gale has to figure out what kind of captain he actually is.
Archimedes Falling is about loyalty, consequence, and what you become when the options run out. Book 1 of Persephone's Log.