When a massive solar flare from the red giant Helion-3 strikes the orphanage world of Varis 7, seventeen-year-old Taris Elian discovers he possesses abilities that shouldn't exist. As stellar energy rewrites his DNA, he becomes one of the first awakened Solarborn—humans who can manipulate light, energy, and consciousness itself.
But Taris's transformation is no accident. The flare has triggered the ancient Godflare Protocol, a failsafe system designed by humanity's first stellar engineers to reawaken dormant evolutionary sequences when the species faces extinction. Across the galaxy, others like Taris are manifesting impossible abilities, and the totalitarian Celestian Empire will stop at nothing to contain this threat.