What happens when your ship skips universes and lands inside a story? You survive—or become the plot.
In this fast-paced, trope-bending Broken Light Years novella, Captain Jack Harper and his crew aboard the Scarside face their most bizarre challenge yet: a containment skip gone wrong lands them in a reality where narrative logic governs physics.
First contact? Captain James T. Kirk.
Second contact? A redshirt loop where Jack dies—repeatedly.
Third contact? A musical planet that demands operatic testimony.
And that’s just the cold open.
The Crucible—Scarside’s powerful, dimension-hopping drive—was built to explore the unknown. But it’s adapting. Learning. And now, it seems to prefer stories over space. With each shard they recover, the crew is pulled deeper into a serialized multiverse shaped by tropes, genres, and poetic enforcers