Transponder - Empyrean Sun (2026)

Empyrean Sun rises to greet the cosmos as the third and final chapter of Transponder’s (Steve Pierce & Don Tyler) Darkstar Ascendant trilogy. Together with Empire of the Eclipse and Umbral Dawn, it completes a single arc—three releases moving from shadowed prophecy to radiant horizon, each a self-contained journey within the same continuum.

This album concludes the trilogy, but not the story. Empyrean Sun is a threshold rather than a finale, the closing page of this volume, with the next taking shape just beyond the fade.