The Lost Vampire System

Jareth Nightshade is fifteen, orphaned by the Lyracken war, and tests at 0:1 — zero Evolved powers in an academy where every student is ranked and the strong openly rob the weak. When his blood spills on the sealed ancient machine his father left behind, the Draven System pours into his chest and marks him as the heir of a vampire god the Empire has hunted across the galaxy. As he hides what he's becoming — absorbing power in secret, summoning the sun god from a dark rock that his father gave him, and gaining a "Jack of All Trades" power while gathering the first people who have ever chosen him — an Empire warship turns their attention to Earth and a second-year predator marks him for collection. An off-world expedition ends with his sister dying in the sand, and the only way to save her is to make her what he is: hunted, forever, alongside him.