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Five years after the Hydrogues devastate human‑colonized worlds in the Spiral Arm, their embargo on stardrive fuel strangles Earth. In response, humanity fields a cybernetic army to counter the extraterrestrial threat. Unbeknownst to the Terran leaders, these robotic warriors have already exterminated their original architects and may soon turn against humanity itself. With humans now the galaxy’s most endangered species, a sudden emergence of powerful new beings threatens to disrupt the tenuous equilibrium among the myriad alien factions. Amid looming genocide, the true interstellar conflict begins.
First publish date: 2003
Genre: Science Fiction/Space Opera
Authors: Kevin J. Anderson
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