Officially, it doesn't exist. Unofficially: hidden facilities, stolen children with the right bloodlines, and a procedure that forces power into bodies never built to hold it.
The result is a Phoenix STAR — powerful, unstable, and dying from the moment the bond takes. Most don't survive their first year. The rest live leashed to white suits that keep the power from tearing them apart.
Thirty years ago, the largest facility burned for three days. The fire was set from the inside. The girl who lit it carried a hundred and thirty children out and vanished into the mountains, and every facility the Empire has built since runs on one new rule: the suits never come off.
Two questions survive the classification stamps. Why did one girl stabilize when thousands died? And why are the bloodlines that survive the procedure so very often Frysian?