Evan Taylor and Anya Rojas have been throw together in a wildly unexpected way. They were supposed to be part of a new colony being established on planet Aethos. Except their colony ship was destroyed while approaching the planet and only a few of the passengers manages to escape via escape pods. They and the other survivors gathered in a central location and tried to make out what exactly they had left to survive. Most all of the pods had some survival tools, food and other equipment, but nothing to build or sustain a new colony.
It wasn’t long before Evan and Anya became separated from the original crash survivors only to wind up in the camp of another group of survivors. Included in that group was former Chancellor Thomas Conroy who was believe to have died in a shuttle accident some five years ago. But he was very much alive and needed Evan to help him find an alien ship. His group had found what appeared to be an underground alien facility, but they couldn’t enter it since they were missing some kind of alien DNA or other feature. Evan has already experienced that he has some kind of interaction with the planet and alien artifacts due to his use of an alien sphere that he had discarded since he felt it was unsafe.
But he agreed to go to the alien site and see if he could get the door open. That’s when he had the fight with Roman Santano, a brother of the Noche Syndicate leader. Roman had found the sphere and wanted to use its power to control everything. He and Evan fought with Roman falling off a cliff along with the sphere. Evan was able to activate the door to the alien facility and they entered not sure of what they might find.
What they did find was the alien starship. It allowed them to board and after some adjustment, it identified itself as *Sam*, an intelligent, almost sentient AI. It told them that they could leave this underground chamber if they wanted. So, they figured they’d go find Conroy’s people and see what they wanted the ship to do.
Unfortunately, the ship had its own intentions. It immediately lifted through the roof of the cavern and reached space without Evan or Anya know they had even moved. This was when *Sam* said that he had been dormant some 6,281 years and needed to go home! So off they go.
This ship has the ability to jump through space like no other ship in the universe. Humans after colonizing over eighty worlds have to use stargates to get anywhere. So along the way, Evan and Anya try to learn more about this starship and the planet he was taking them to. *Sam* likewise is learning more and more about humans. He and Evan share a telepathic link so he can almost read Evan’s thoughts. Additionally, *Sam* can and does begin to configure the ship to accommodate the human form which is somewhat different than his creators but not that different.
Soon they arrive a *Sam’s* home planet only to be vastly disappointed. What should have been a thriving civilization with space-stations in orbit and spacecraft all about, they find nothing! *Sam* takes Evan and Anya down to the planet where the capital city once sat. Evan and Anya begin a ground search for artifacts or anything resembling a city or civilization at this location. They again find nothing. *Sam* eventually tells them that his people were known as the Korani. But there’s nothing here to find. It appears that if the Korani were here, everyone has fled or something catastrophic has happened. Where once sat huge buildings, now are only glassed surfaces buried beneath tons of dirt. The planet is dry. Even *Sam* can’t figure out where his people have gone.
And that’s starts the rest of the story. Evan, Anya and *Sam* are on a mission to find the Korani. They only know of one possible place to start and that is the planet Pavia, which is under control of the Noche Syndicate. It is rumored that they have also found alien artifacts including the serum that they inject into only those in the highest levels of the organization. Evan believes they need to go there and search for more clues on where the Korani might have gone. But, that means confronting the powerful Syndicate that, due to his undercover exploits, want him very dead!
There’s a lot more in this book and most of it is real exciting. Finding the Korani is really important, but they also need to protect Aethos. The Syndicate is already there and a threat to Evan and his alien powers is already growing. More will be forthcoming in book 3, “Rebel Worlds”, now available on Amazon.
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[Note 2: As of 12/03/2023, this will not be posted on Amazon since I have been banned from posting reviews for some unknown reason. ]