Ad Astra: First Contact

Eight thousand years after the vitrification of the earth, human beings, the descendants of earthlings, have basically become a post-scarcity society based on enjoying life. With the discovery of another ancient race beyond the Great Gulf, a collision of events and history leads the Earthling Alliance into a war with a billion-year-old empire that has always won and believes it will always win. With allies and enemies of multiple species, the Orion Galaxy Arm will be ravaged by an unprecedented war. Cracked, distressed, injured, damaged, the descendants of Earthlings will deliberately turn against the universe itself. This novel and its characters are purely fictitious. Any similarity is purely coincidental and should not be imitated.