The High Wild: Neverwar — Col Buchanan

Follow the legendary Child of Jih, one of the last of the living Rogue Prophetships, and her crew of escaped slaves as they fly the space-lanes in disguise, running when they have to and helping where they can. Now, on their latest mission, the young Prophetship and her crew face the most impossible odds of all - a mission to free the mindwashed captives of an entire prison moon. Welcome to the Neverwar, or what's left of it... A bitter conflict that lasted for 3000 years, and ended in a single day. The good guys lost. Now the Halos star system has fallen into an age of darkness and delusion, where God Kings enslave populations in waves of mind-control while they devour the planets alive and sacrifice millions to their secret masters behind it all, The Eaters of the Light. But some still stand against the rise of the New Order. Indeed the greater the darkness the brighter they shine. Refusing to surrender, Rogue Prophetships bring aid to both the free and enslaved, to Humani and native Shal, proclaiming truths and a vision of hope now barely dreamed of... Meanwhile, way out in the High Wild of space, freelifers build communities of refuge for those fleeing the insanity of their homeworlds. On distant asteroids and backwater moons, Shal and Humani live as they were created to live instead of like machines. Even on the worlds fallen to the New Order, a remnant of freelifers still hides out amongst the mindwashed living dead; individuals who are awake for all that they pretend to be asleep like those around them, usually alone for the sake of cover, usually quietly seeking a way out. If you're reading this book, then maybe you are one of them ... The Highwild: Neverwar Episode 1 is the first instalment of a new serialised space adventure, set largely on board the living Prophetship Child of Jih. This episode is 10,000 words long and illustrated.