The Cosmic Prospector: From Scrap to Empire

Ethan Cole is thirty-seven thousand credits in debt and one broken oxygen regulator away from becoming another expendable technician on the Moon.

Then an ancient black core bonds with him.

It doesn't give him weapons. It doesn't make him rich. It gives him something far more dangerous: the ability to see resources everyone else has missed.

Seven meters beneath his boots lies a silver deposit worth more money than he has earned in years. There are only a few problems. The mine belongs to Farstar Mining Corporation. His new system is nearly out of power. His only excavation unit is a condemned tunneling robot. And someone with executive-level clearance has begun tracing the signal that awakened the core.

To survive, Ethan must turn scrap into machinery, maintenance loopholes into legal claims, and hidden deposits into an industrial empire—one repair, one risk, and one hard-won credit at a time.

He would rather get rich than save the universe.

Unfortunately, the universe may not give him a choice.