The Silence of the Stars

When humanity was on the brink of extinction, in a desperate attempt to avert its ever-closer end, it formed a symbiotic alliance with an alien race of rocky beings called the Hak'Zel. This union resulted in a superior race that now rules all systems capable of supporting life.
Many years after this union, on a rocky planet called Basalt, a young miner named Misar became entangled with the Empire, triggering a series of events that would make his very existence a threat to the Empire and its entire existence.