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The mind-numbingly alien Arachnids were an enemy whose like no civilized race had ever confronted. Like some carnivorous cancer, the "Bugs" had overrun planet after planet...and they regarded any competing sentient species as only one more protein source. They couldn't be reasoned with, or even talked to, because no one had the least idea of how to communicate with a telepathic species with no recognizable language...and whose response to any communication attempt was a missile salvo.

Diplomacy is the bane of Bud's life these days.

As riots rage across the Human Federation space, what he'd been told on Sanctuary accelerates. Everyone wants his help.

The consequences of losing your temper for a moment grow with your power.

But is this a good thing or bad? Only time will tell, but suddenly everything seems to be happening at once.

In the year 2294, Dharma Raghav, Prime Minister of the New India Federation of Planets is a broken man carrying the ghosts of a war he cannot forget. Thirty years ago, on a planet called Lanka, he battled demon hordes and lost the only woman he ever loved. Now, a cryptic message from that cloaked planet rips open old wounds—and promises answers he cannot ignore. Dharma abandons his throne of power and, with his brother Loki, boards the galaxy’s first sentient starship: Maya 1. But Maya is not just a vessel—she is alive. She dreams. She hungers.

Seit die Menschheit ins All aufgebrochen ist, hat sie eine wechselvolle Geschichte hinter sich: Längst sind die Terraner in ferne Sterneninseln vorgestoßen, wo sie auf raumfahrende Zivilisationen und auf die Spur kosmischer Mächte getroffen sind, die das Geschehen im Universum beeinflussen. Mittlerweile schreiben wir das Jahr 1517 Neuer Galaktischer Zeitrechnung (NGZ).