Prior Integration

Signal 38. Twelve years of Integration investment. The strongest reads in known space.

Cade Varro is an intelligence operative whose ability to read people is both his greatest asset and the reason no one trusts him. When an escort mission goes catastrophically wrong, a corporate conspiracy turns his own professional thoroughness into the evidence against him.

The tribunal was decided before he arrived. The reset strips everything — stats, skills, designation. Twelve years, gone.

But the system left something behind. A corrupted slot. Residual stats that shouldn't exist. And a notification that says one word:

[Begin.]

A LitRPG novella where the progression goes backward, the conspiracy goes deeper, and the system isn't finished yet.