Wednesday, April 9, 2025

The Ascendant Stars

Cobley, Michael. The Ascendant Stars. Book 3 of  Humanity's Fire. 2011. 467p. ISBN 9781841496351.

The Ascendant Stars book cover

The forces in the galaxy are converging on Darien as the concluding chapter of Humanity's Fire reaches its climax. The Hegemony's battle fleet of over 2,000 ships is traveling toward the human planet, looking to inflict such a destructive lesson no one else will ever forget. A rag-tag alliance of representatives of the three lost human colonies with alien allies readies to defend the planet against overwhelming odds. Greg Cameron, the archeologist turned rebellion leader, successfully allies people with disparate interests as Catriona marshals Segrana and the Zyradin's vast resources to protect the planet and its inhabitants.

The Knight of the Legions of the Avatar has deployed his mechs and taken control of the warpwell on Giant's Shoulder, and the barriers preventing the rest of the Legions from escaping the deepest part of the hyperspace abyss have been removed. Meanwhile, the Construct and its myriad agents, among them Reski Emantes, work with the Earth Ambassador Robert Horst to defeat the Godhead, who set all of these plots in motion to gain ascension to a higher plane of existence. Talavares, the Godhead's agent, is ready to deploy 500 anti-dark matter missiles against 500 worlds, causing them to go supernova. Julia, like Catriona, an enhanced human, fractionalizes her mind and successfully escapes the prison her body has become. 

With all of these forces converging on Darien, the resulting confrontation threatens to destroy the galaxy!

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