Solar Storm Press · Digital · 3 issues
Day After Disclosure
First contact isn’t an invasion — it’s a disclosure, and the world was never ready for the truth. Issue 1, The Turning Tide: old alliances fray as human and non-human factions vie for supremacy in a shadow war centuries in the making.
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20-page story PDF. The print cover is not in the file. Paperback · $7.00 on Amazon
Written and created by Rob Hackney. Issues 2 and 3 credit the lettering to Anne Hackney. The issues do not name an illustrator. Mature readers.
The series
At the centre of it is Trevor Something, a man who has spent his career as one quiet node in humanity’s early-warning system — aware of far more than he was ever meant to act on. When the system he serves fails on his watch, in a moment he could see coming for years, he stops being an observer and starts being a participant in the thing he was hired to only ever watch.
The series’ real premise isn’t that Earth is the prize in a galactic conflict — it’s that Earth was never the point. A canal isn’t invaded because anyone wants the canal; it’s contested because of what controlling it lets a much larger power do everywhere else. Day After Disclosure treats humanity the same way: a strategically located, barely-defended chokepoint that older, larger powers have been quietly securing, denying and trading control of for centuries — long before anyone on Earth was allowed to know the war existed.
“I couldn’t stop thinking this is probably how things would really play out.”
Amazon reader
Each file is the issue pages, not the wraparound print cover shown here. Issue 1 is 20 story pages and has no copyright page in the file. Issue 2 is 24 pages and opens on the copyright page. Issue 3 is 26 pages and opens on the copyright page. Paperbacks stay on Amazon.
Issue 2
Contact
Trevor Something inches closer to a truth no one on Earth is ready to hear.
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Issue 3
Rubicon
The President goes public. Now comes the harder part — survival.
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