Imperial Warships Invaded An Alien Planet. It Woke Up And Swallowed Them

Warrant surveyor Coyne gave the Sol Invictus Empire the mineral reading that brought an armada to an unnamed world. Four days later, his warship is wrecked in a bog, its armor seals are turning to grease, and hard ridges are growing beneath the survivors’ skin.

When Coyne reruns his scans, the veins of iridium and platinum resolve into organized tissue. Worse, every orbital strike is followed by a pulse through the ground, and every pulse drags the wreck closer to a vast fissure that rises, opens, and breathes.

Coyne has one chance to ge...