Star Watch is reeling. The service has beaten New Men, massed bug fleets and hideous android attackers, but at a grim cost in men, starships and radioactive planets.
The human worlds face starvation, increased space piracy and insurrections.
Star Watch needs a break. It needs time to regroup, rebuild and reunite star systems.
But Lord Drakos--the perfect soldier--knows this is the time to strike. With a fleet of renegade New Men and hybrid Swarm creatures, and a unique Builder weapon, he will smash Star Watch and rule the premen as emperor supreme.
Plan A has Captain Maddox capturing Drakos before the New Man can find the Swarm splinter colony world. Plan B means Star Watch will have to risk sending its last fleet into the Beyond.
For Maddox this is also a troubled time, as he closes in on the identities of his mother and father.
THE LOST SWARM is the eleventh book in the LOST STARSHIP SERIES.
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Star Watch is reeling. The service has beaten New Men, massed bug fleets and hideous android attackers, but at a grim cost in men, starships and radioactive planets.
The human worlds face starvation, increased space piracy and insurrections.
Star Watch needs a break. It needs time to regroup, rebuild and reunite star systems.
But Lord Drakos--the perfect soldier--knows this is the time to strike. With a fleet of renegade New Men and hybrid Swarm creatures, and a unique Builder weapon, he will smash Star Watch and rule the premen as emperor supreme.
Plan A has Captain Maddox capturing Drakos before the New Man can find the Swarm splinter colony world. Plan B means Star Watch will have to risk sending its last fleet into the Beyond.
For Maddox this is also a troubled time, as he closes in on the identities of his mother and father.
THE LOST SWARM is the eleventh book in the LOST STARSHIP SERIES.