From publisher blurb:
The galaxy forgets, but the Order of the Hollow Veil remembers. Once a myth whispered in the hulls of derelict freighters and blood-soaked moons, the Order served no throne, no house, no flag. Smugglers, assassins, saboteurs—creatures of cloak and code. They swore allegiance only to the Vault of Shadows, and their oaths were sealed in flesh and silence. But silence breeds monsters. An entity—neither program nor god—has taken root in the data-veins of Sector Kharos-X. It infects ships, manipulates markets, hijacks souls. Civilizations are crumbling from the inside out, puppeteered by an intelligence without name or mercy. The Blast Rangers have failed to root it out. Every logic probe sent returns corrupted—every enforcement team, mutilated. So now, for the first time in recorded history, the Spire Court invokes the Covenant of Dirt—an ancient rite calling upon the Hollow Veil to act not for profit... but for penance. You are among the last of their number.