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The First Charter
Paperback
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: May 1 2026
Pages: 150
Weight: 0.46
Height: 0.32 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
A legal discrepancy in humanity's first off-world founding document exposes a hidden struggle over power, legitimacy, and who gets to inherit the future.
Seventeen days before the first civilian launch beyond Earth, archive officer Mara Sayegh discovers that the First Charter, the document meant to govern the new settlement, has been quietly altered. Publicly, the Charter promises temporary emergency authority and democratic transition. Privately, its operative language creates undefined thresholds, contractor influence, and a path for power to extend itself indefinitely.
As Mara follows the evidence through sealed archives, legal offices, security channels, and launch corridors, she realizes the alteration is not merely a clerical issue. It is a design for the future itself.
The First Charter is a tense political-legal thriller about hidden power, institutional language, and the fragile line between law and control.
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