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Arvian Kresthoff is a Level Three technician on the Mule Train 44, a rust-bucket transport in a fleet of six thousand cheap vessels. The Terran Concordance has a new strategy to defeat the superior Karradan Empire: not with firepower, but with a weaponized traffic jam designed to crash the enemy's logic processors. But as the fleet’s synchronized jump drives generate a lethal amount of residual heat, Arvian realizes the terrifying truth. The fleet isn't supposed to win; it's supposed to suffocate.

Trapped in a pressurized furnace of superheated plasma, facing an alien boarding party and a command structure that views him as an acceptable loss, Arvian must make a choice between treason and death. This Hard Sci-Fi story explores the brutal physics of heat rejection in deep space, the ethics of expendable logistics, and what happens when a blue-collar engineer decides to rewrite the laws of motion using an alien hull as a hammer.