# Omni

Omni is a union of fourteen super-civilizations that watch over the Milky Way, guiding the development of younger species while maintaining cosmic order. They appointed six humans as Travelers—beings granted extended life and tasked with executing Omni's will. Aurelius, born on the legendary Earth ten thousand years ago, is one of these Travelers. Now he receives his final mission.

A mysterious artifact lies aboard the Kuritania, a freighter stranded in the Sprawl—the chaotic hyperspatial realm between normal space. The artifact is an Omni-machine of immense power, capable of producing various Omni devices. A shadow organization called the Agency has already located the wreck and wants the artifact for themselves. To activate it, they need a Traveler.

Former Agent Forrester lives in hiding on a remote planet with his daughter Zinnober, refugees from his dangerous past. When the Agency finds them and threatens Zinnober, Forrester has no choice but to accept a mission: capture the Traveler Aurelius. Father and daughter set out on their ship the Sonnenwind, beginning a journey that will entangle them with forces beyond their understanding.

The three storylines—Aurelius racing to secure the artifact, Forrester pursuing him, and the Agency's ruthless leader Benedikt pressing forward with his own plans—converge in escalating conflict. The artifact's defense systems activate catastrophically, threatening an entire planet. Aurelius, weakened and hunted, must rely on unlikely allies. Forrester and Zinnober find themselves transforming from hunters to something else entirely.

Omni won the Kurd-Laßwitz-Preis for best novel. It establishes the Omniversum—a setting spanning billions of years of galactic history where ancient civilizations guide younger ones, machine intelligences form their own dynasties, and humanity occupies a small but significant place. The novel combines space opera adventure with questions about power, responsibility, and what it means to serve forces far greater than yourself.