Wisteria Elken (she/her) has always wanted to be a stellarnaut, to be entrusted with the monumental responsibility of linking the terrestrial world with the millions living in the zero-g environments of spacesteads. To do so, she’ll need to leave the only home she’s ever known and journey to the whirling lights and towering spires of humanity’s greatest metropolis, the City of Poets.

One problem. Well, a million problems, but one particularly pressing problem:

Wist is transgender.

From everything she’s heard, the executives of Kell Princeton, the premiere spacefaring ultracorp, will not allow for a transgender stellarnaut. Can Wist survive the grueling trials set forth by Kell Princeton without revealing her true identity?

Over Five Centuries Ago…


Wist (she/her)

Stellarnaut Candidate
Trans Woman

Piper (she/her)

Stellarnaut Candidate
Traitor?

Ada (she/her)

Stellarnaut Candidate
Poet?

Ingrid (she/her)

Stellarnaut Candidate
Honest?

Falkner (he/him)

Stellarnaut Candidate
Smuggler?

Santiago (he/him)

Stellarnaut Candidate
Corpo?

Ambrose (he/him)

Stellarnaut Candidate
Heir?

Antoinette (she/her)

Stellarnaut Candidate
Heiress?

Jelani (they/them)

Stellarnaut Candidate
Genius?

Freddy (he/him)

Stellarnaut
Ally?

The great rebellion of the poets was put down for good, their works burned and their influence snuffed out. The only proof they ever existed is in the name of humanity’s largest metropolis: The City of Poets. Now home to the most powerful ultracorp the world has ever seen, the poets sing no more.

Or do they?

Maybe the revolutionary spirit of those poets lives on…and maybe Wist will have to learn their songs…