Maelstrom

The isfet are the single greatest threat to human life in the Erde system, as well as it's greatest mystery. All anyone knows about them is that they're monsters; that their existence defies every natural and physical law, and that they exist to kill every last human.For Aaron Wilder, a freshly-trained solider in the Bulwark - humanity's defence against the isfet - the future seems simple. He's going to raise his kid sister, he's going to support his partner as she rises through the Bulwark's ranks, and he's going to fight to keep people safe. But one day, after getting himself injured in the most un-heroic of circumstances, things change. All of a sudden, he can create and control the same unnatural substance that the isfet are made of. He starts to bleed oil and mist. And there's an ever-growing part of him that wants, more than anything else, to utterly obliterate anything that stands in his way.As he struggles to keep his new abilities under wraps, Aaron is caught up in a sinister plot by higher powers that threatens the futures of not just him and his loved ones, but every person living in the system. Though he may bear the colours of the enemy (so to speak), one thing is clear: he's humanity's only hope.