Return to Vega: The Awakening
Paperback
Series: Return to Vega, Book 1
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Jan 11 2026
Pages: 306
Weight: 0.82
Height: 0.76 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Humanity did not arrive in the Vega system as conquerors.
But it did not arrive peacefully either.
When first contact fractures into misunderstanding and escalation, a distant star system becomes the front line of a war no one intended to start-and no one fully understands how to end.
As Earth's decisions ripple outward, the consequences are borne by those far from the negotiating tables: civilians, explorers, and officers forced to adapt to a conflict that rewrites loyalties and redraws the meaning of survival.
Return to Vega is a character-driven science fiction novel about unintended wars, cultural collision, and the quiet costs of expansion. It is not a story of heroes and villains-but of people living with the aftermath of choices already made.
This is the first volume in an ongoing series.
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