From the Ashes of a Dead World

Pavel Marino commands one of the few remaining combat squadrons in the final days of an unwinnable interstellar conflict. On orders from the admiralty he must now spirit his government’s leadership across the stars to a forgotten planet whose inhabitants were believed destroyed in an ancient war. There, far from the reaches of a ruthless foe, on a desolate oasis in deep space, they plan to lick their wounds with the intent of fighting once again.

But his ships were never designed to travel such a distance. The vessels eventually fall apart in transit as the crews starve, while good order and discipline begins to decay. Along the way many difficult decisions are made so that a few can survive. And when they finally reach their anticipated sanctuary, they discover that the planet is already inhabited by billions of humans with industrial-level technology, driving cars with internal combustion engines, flying airplanes with propellers, and waging a brutal world war.

Desperate, and with nowhere else to go, the weary space-farers make contact with their long-lost cousins. They must now make a fateful decision: Should they strive for peaceful coexistence with an archaic culture or subjugate these primitive beasts?

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