There are memories, and then there are legends. For me, my brother Ksawier is a legend—though not for the reasons you’d expect. He wasn’t the bravest, nor the fastest, nor the one wielding a plasma blaster in our neighborhood laser tag duels. But, as I learned one starless night aboard the merchant freighter *Starlight Finch*, heroism has many faces. It began when the *Finch* drifted into the Nebula of Shifting Colors, where sensor readings twisted into nonsense and even the bravest spacefarers kept one hand on the emergency beacons. We were meant to be on a routine trade mission, helping our parents with their galactic spice shipments. Instead, somewhere between the dizzying purples and golds of the nebula, space pirates struck. Pirates, we’d heard, wore battered armor and roared across the comms like hungry wolves. These pirates, though, were led by their infamous captain, Scar-Talon—...

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