First Encounters: A Deep Space, Alien Mystery

What if humanity’s first contact was never a rescue?

For years, the Hannu have been celebrated as humanity’s saviors. These mysterious plasma beings rescued a lost colony ship, opened pathways to distant worlds, and offered humankind a future among the stars.

Hala Osveld knows a different story.

A survivor of the catastrophe on Rigel 1, Hala finally breaks her silence to deliver a warning: the Hannu are not refugees or benevolent guides. They are invaders—and humanity may be more than their partner. It may be their host.

Through recorded interviews, recovered broadcasts, historical documents, and fractured eyewitness testimony, Hala traces the conspiracy from the abandoned settlements of Mars to the disappearance of an interstellar colony ship, the arrival of the enigmatic Shining Ones, and the teleportation gates now standing on every human world.

But Hala’s account raises a terrifying question: if an alien species can influence human memories, desires, and beliefs, how can anyone recognize the truth?

And when salvation and conquest wear the same face, whom can humanity trust?

FIRST ENCOUNTERS is a haunting science-fiction mystery about alien contact, hidden manipulation, unreliable history, and the terrible price of reaching the stars.