Eight thousand years after Earth was glassed, the descendants of Earth have largely become a post-scarcity society built around enjoying life. After another ancient species was discovered beyond the Great Bay, the collision of events and history drew the Earthling Alliance into a war against an empire more than a hundred million years old, an empire that had always won and believed it always would. With allies and enemies of many species along a branch of the Orion Arm, the region will suffer the devastation of an unprecedented war. Fractured, destitute, wounded, and damaged, the descendants of Earth will deliberately pit themselves against the universe itself.
This novel and its characters are entirely fictional. Any resemblance is purely coincidental. Do not imitate.