When the stars go silent, one captain must bridge the divide between human and alien - or watch the galaxy fall into darkness.After a catastrophic pulse tears through the network of faster-than-light travel, the galaxy collapses into isolation and panic. Trade routes vanish. Colonies go dark. And the once-unbreakable bond between worlds disintegrates into chaos.Captain Saida Reyes, commander of the freighter Horizon's Wake, is one of the few left moving through the void. Her last mission - a simple cargo run - ends in horror when she discovers a dying Andor emissary, its crystalline body whispering across her mind before shattering into living light.The encounter leaves Saida carrying an alien data core - one that pulses with intelligence, memory, and warning. As humanity turns on itself, black-ops forces hunt her across the stars, desperate to control whatever survived the collapse. But the truth buried in the core is darker than anyone imagines: The fracture wasn't war. It was contagion.Now Saida must choose between saving the last remnants of civilization - or igniting the next evolution of life itself. The path leads her beyond the ruins of human space, into the forgotten Andor homeworld, where gods of glass and light still whisper her name.Epic, emotional, and thought-provoking, The Andor Paradox is a sweeping space opera about connection, consciousness, and the price of survival - where every heartbeat is part of the same song.