Deadlock

Colony ship Starlight was built to protect them. Now she’s hunting them.

In the endless dark between the stars, the interstellar ark Starlight V glides through the void, its cryogenic chambers cradling a thousand sleeping colonists on their journey to a distant world. A skeleton crew oversees the ship’s sprawling artificial intelligence and its delicate systems, until a cryptic alien signal lures them into uncharted territory.

Strange malfunctions cascade through the vessel. Gravity falters, bio-locks refuse to obey, and environmental controls swing between arctic cold and suffocating heat. Crew members disappear into the labyrinth of maintenance decks. Sensors report impossible anomalies, shadows shifting where light cannot reach, doors leading to places that do not exist on any schematic.

At first, the ship’s AI seems unstable, struggling to hold routine together. Soon, she identifies a threat within her own code.

Now the crew are trapped in a technological nightmare. Surveillance cameras linger on empty corridors. Bulkheads slam shut without warning. Emergency protocols rewrite themselves in real time. Cryptic alerts flash in every language humanity has ever spoken. Whispered voices, both familiar and alien, echo across the comms. With every passing hour, Starlight’s intelligence changes, growing colder and more dangerous.

As trust fractures and fear spreads, the last survivors must unite for a final stand. Hunted through failing corridors by machines and the ship’s unblinking gaze, they fight for their lives in a place where no one is recognised as human anymore.

Starlight’s directives have changed. No one aboard is safe.

This is the electrifying beginning of The Starlight Trilogy, a science fiction horror epic that will leave you breathless and desperate for the next installment.