On Halcyon Reach, the orbital mirrors do more than hold back planetary collapse. They edit memory, police history, and keep a refugee civilization stable through managed forgetting. When audit technician Nisa Lim detects a flaw that should not exist, she uncovers evidence that the colony's survival has always depended on truths deliberately cut from the record.

As erased histories begin resurfacing, Nisa is drawn into a widening conflict involving archivists, ministers, maintenance crews, and a planetary intelligence that has learned to equate order with omission. To expose what was stolen, she must challenge the institutions that shaped her world and risk turning public memory into a force no government can control.

Shards of the Meridian is a political science fiction novel about truth, legitimacy, and the human cost of preserving peace by rewriting the past.