“Gifts of the Desert” is a novel by Andrey Skorobogatov and Dmitry Bogutsky, the second book in the cycle “The Throne of the Galaxy Will Be Mine!”. Genres: space fiction, bojar-anime, RealRPG.
Once, I was a hero—one who fought the Horde for the Galactic Empire. I paid for victory with everything, but the war even took my life that was supposed to be ahead.
For an entire century, I spent in stasis, forgotten and abandoned. When I came to, I saw a new reality: the Empire had fallen apart, the planets were drowning in anarchy and bribery, and the nobility—meant to keep order—had turned into tyrants and slave traders. But I didn’t break. If they forgot me, I will make them remember.
In the line for the throne, I’m listed as the thousandth. But it will be me who takes the galactic throne. I’ll just start small—with a distant colony where pirates found shelter. There, I will raise my fleet. And let them try to stop me.