Explore the Universe of SubOptimal
The Empire fell to an unknown enemy. Its survivors are now fuel to the fire.
For centuries, Humanity has been shaped by the brutal physics of FTL transit. True interstellar travel requires punching through normal space into a Void, a realm governed by unforgiving mechanics where structural survival is never guaranteed.
When the Empire collapsed, the Noah fleet manipulated the wreckage, leaving the true descendants of Albion to survive in isolation within the hollowed-out geology of Maenor.
The cold equilibrium is shattered when the Noah warship Hougoumont stumbles across the enclave. Following a catastrophic tactical miscalculation, their leadership is shattered and Rowan is taken as a political asset, dragged aboard a vessel preparing for a high-risk Void transit.
Trapped, Rowan faces a closed-system crisis. The ship's captain is undergoing a psychological fracture, desperate to mask his own failures. The ship's sovereign intelligence, Hugo, is failing while the crew of sympathisers, prepare for the upcoming transit, unaware of the consequences of their actions.
Across the light-years, a grim, biological inheritance passes to Rowan’s cousin, Wren, forcing a brutal psychological integration that will redefine the cost of her humanity.
Join us Inside a vessel navigating a crumbling command structure and an unstable intelligence, survival demands suboptimal choices, a loss of honour or a dissolution in the dark.
