A man watches a fiery spaceship and ethereal woman in a cosmic sky above a burning field. Title 'Ashes of the Starborn'.

Make this into a book cover Title: “Ashes of the Starborn” Prologue: They came in burning silence. The sky of Velmora-9, a pale, dusk-washed farming world, was torn open by the fangs of the Xarthen Dominion—the greatest intergalactic empire in known history. Dozens of worlds had already fallen, their suns dimmed or stolen, their people shackled to the Machine Lords who served the Emperor of Dust. And in the shadow of this eternal war machine, a simple farmer lived. Chapter One: The Soil and the Sky Kael Durn had never left Velmora-9. He had dirt under his nails, calluses thicker than synth-steel, and a quiet sorrow in his eyes. His parents died when the first Dominion scouts came a decade ago. Since then, he’d only tilled the red soil and listened to the wind—pretending the stars didn’t whisper war. He wanted nothing to do with the galaxy’s madness. He just wanted peace. But peace doesn’t last in the shadow of empires. When a Dominion dreadnought crash-landed near his farm, Kael pulled a bleeding woman from the wreckage—Commander Elira Thorne, a rebel fighter from the Fracture Legion. She was dying, muttering about the Emperor, about something called the Starborn Protocol. Kael didn’t know it yet, but his fate had just been sealed. Chapter Two: The Spark of War Elira wasn’t just any rebel—she carried vital information. A map embedded in her DNA, a key to the Vault of Echoes, hidden deep within the ruins of the first fallen world. That vault contained the one weapon the See more