Universe Portal
Enter the Ransom's Law universe.
Explore the people, worlds, institutions, ships, and lore that shape the record. The books remain the doorway. The universe is what waits beyond it.
Worlds
Irrakai
A harsh frontier world shaped by distance, pressure, and survival.
Koschei
A cold and dangerous world with a long shadow in the record.
Corvalis
A corporate world where power is written into every contract.
Morwenna
A key world in the Ransom's Law universe.
Aralx
A world caught between old authority and new instability.
Characters
Cal Ransom
Once a corporate lawyer more concerned with winning than with the truth, Cal got chewed up the moment he noticed the rules were being quietly rewritten. After TrustUs! cuts him loose, he ends up on the Hard Bargain and, through a technicality weaponized by Cassandra Vail, becomes its captain.
Steve Gideon
Gideon is the ship’s engineer and the crew member most likely to solve a crisis with a wrench, a curse, and elbow grease. He is blunt to the point of comedy, but under the roughness is a deep sense of duty: once you are his, you are his problem, and he does not abandon problems.
Sable Tierce
Tierce is the Hard Bargain’s systems specialist: quick, exacting, and hard to read even when she is being honest. She carries a secretive past tied to forbidden AI research and the wreckage left behind when powerful institutions decide your work should not exist.
Delia “Deeks” Khurshidani
A veteran pilot with dry humor, sharp instincts, and a practiced calm that keeps the ship steady when everyone else is spiraling.
Jules
Jules is an android born from a botched emergency upload: a composite of Praetor Julianus’s legal architecture and Lucia’s emergent intelligence, plus whatever else slipped through the cracks. He is not a clean blend so much as a new person assembled out of incompatible parts.
Read the record
The Books
Book 1
Acceleration Clause
It's great!
Book 2
Adverse Possession
Book 3
Discovery Motion
Book 4
Force Majeure
As the crew of the Hard Bargain uncovers a covert Ministry tied to a century-old catastrophe on Irrakai, they race to understand a plague that threatens humans, machines, and the future of the known galaxy.
Book 5