CLEARANCE LEVEL: ALPHA  |  DESIGNATION: FICTION

JON
PAVSKI

Science Fiction   ·   Military SF   ·   Conspiracy Thriller

Stories set in the cold machinery of space — where military operations mask deeper conspiracies, artificial intelligence asks the wrong questions, and the most dangerous enemy is the one inside the mission from the start.

01 Debut Novel
47 Chapters
∞ Series Potential
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Designation ASTRO Protocol
Author Jon Pavski
Genre Military Sci-Fi
Series Book One
Status Coming Soon
Publisher Iron Wolf Press
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Mission Briefing

ASTRO Protocol

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Justin Greene thought he was just a gamer. He was wrong.

When a message embedded in a video game warns him that the competitions he's dominated his entire life were never competitions at all — that every match, every score, every instinct was being measured, graded, and filed by a covert military organization called Space Defense Command — Justin's world inverts overnight.

SDC designation: ASTRO.
Founded 1957. Ten years after Roswell.
Officially defunded. Unofficially: self-sustaining.
No government oversight. No accountability.
Funded through the video game industry it helped create.
Recruitment method: the games you thought you were playing.
Mission: protect Earth from a hostile alien species.
Classified name: the Apiary.
Current status of the Apiary: unknown.
Current status of Justin Greene: ACTIVE RECRUIT

Thrust into a training station orbiting far above civilian life, Justin must navigate a ruthless hierarchy, a bunkmate faction that wants him out, and a growing suspicion that the mission he's been brought in to complete may be built on a lie. The aliens ASTRO has declared an enemy — the Apiary — may not be what he's been told at all.

ASTRO Protocol is a military science fiction thriller about the difference between following orders and knowing the truth — and what it costs to learn which one you've been doing.

Military SF Conspiracy Thriller Alien Contact Gamer Recruitment Space Station No Oversight
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Operative Dossier

Jon Pavski

Jon Pavski writes science fiction where the future is neither clean nor certain. His fiction operates in the space between military procedure and moral fracture — stories about soldiers, operatives, and civilians who discover the architecture of the world they trusted was designed by someone with different intentions.

The debut novel, ASTRO Protocol, grew from a simple provocation: what if the games you played your entire life were a recruitment test, and you passed? What if the organization that recruited you had no accountability to anyone — and the enemy they trained you to destroy wasn't actually the enemy?

Jon Pavski is a pen name published through Iron Wolf Press, an independent publishing house committed to fiction that takes its readers — and its genre — seriously.

GENRE ........ Military Science Fiction
TONE ......... Taut / Propulsive / Unsettling
SERIES ....... ASTRO Files (Ongoing)
IMPRINT ...... Jon Pavski / Iron Wolf Press
STATUS ....... DEBUT PENDING
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Series Active ASTRO Files
Clearance ALPHA
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SDC

Space Defense Command

Founded in 1957, ten years after Roswell. Now officially defunded — and entirely self-sustaining, embedded in the video game industry it helped build. No government oversight. No accountability. The most powerful covert military operation no one knows exists.

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RECRUIT

The Recruitment Program

Every tournament. Every high score. Every reflex measured under pressure. ASTRO has been watching gamers for decades — not to crown champions, but to identify operatives. If you were good enough, they already know your name.

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APIARY

The Apiary

The alien species ASTRO trained you to destroy. Hostile, according to ASTRO's decades-old briefings. But hostile species don't share memories with their enemies. They don't give gifts. They don't choose who carries their history forward. Something about the mission briefing is wrong.

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