Book III of The Descendant Saga
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The stranded crew of the battle cruiser Tsaritsyn having narrowly survived a first contact encounter with unknown aliens have become political hostages on the interstellar stage to the very people who came to rescue the them. They’ve become pawns as the European Federation and the Asian Australian Collective Republic struggle for power among the stars, just as they have for the preceding four centuries of cold war that has tinted humanity’s interstellar expansion and colonization with paranoia.
Among these prisoners is someone whose life is even more precarious and historically significant than that of the crew of the Tsaritsyn. A survivor from the colony of Langok, which was lost from all of mankind’s star charts for over two hundred years before the cripples Tsaristyn crash landed on them. This time capsule of a man named ZostaMax, this impossible survivor finds himself in one corner, of a square problem, with the Federation on one side, the Collective Republic on another, and powerful, dangerous, aliens whose spacecraft behave as if physics is a suggestion, oozing out of the blackness of space.
ZostaMax begins to wonder whether if, despite all its technological advancements, that the rest of humanity might not actually be more civilized then the cargo cult they just rescued him from. He can tell the Federation wants him for reasons beyond simply because he would make a good citizen. While he tries to hide his skepticism before someone notices that he noticed, can ZostaMax become a citizen? Can the Federation and the Collective Republic set aside their cold war long enough to survive the hot war set on their door step by these uncommunicative aliens?
What will his citizenship mean to him? What will his citizenship mean to the rest of the galaxy?
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