Eight hundred years after the events of The Navigator of Rhada, the Second Stellar Empire has finally overtaken the first. The Order of Navigators is in decline, and Rhada is now a republic.
The hereditary Starkahn of Rhada, Kier, is a humble sublieutenant of the Survey Wing of the Imperial Fleet. He and his cyborg companion discover an enormous drifting starship in a little-known star system.
Its discovery incites the ambitions of the zealots of the Order and of the royalist sympathizers of Rhada. But there is a greater problem: the ship is a doomsday device sent from outside the Galaxy...
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Eight hundred years after the events of The Navigator of Rhada, the Second Stellar Empire has finally overtaken the first. The Order of Navigators is in decline, and Rhada is now a republic.
The hereditary Starkahn of Rhada, Kier, is a humble sublieutenant of the Survey Wing of the Imperial Fleet. He and his cyborg companion discover an enormous drifting starship in a little-known star system.
Its discovery incites the ambitions of the zealots of the Order and of the royalist sympathizers of Rhada. But there is a greater problem: the ship is a doomsday device sent from outside the Galaxy...