Prior Integration

They made him the best. Then they needed him to fail.

Cade Varro is Tier 2, Signal 38 — the Operative House Veldrath paid for because no one on Kappa 6 was better. The escort should have been routine. His instincts said otherwise. His chain of command said proceed.

In the dead sector, the Integration itself broke. The heir was lost. And the tribunal that came for him was built before the mission ever launched — down to the mentor whose hand would strip his designation.

They reset him to nothing.

Prior Integration. Book 0 of the Integration Era.

He did everything right. That was never the point.