

The Cadre, its entire history lost to the pragmatism of now, is eager to reclaim its legacy and deliver a shocking blow to the enemy. Wearied by centuries of travel, the Colonists dream of returning home.

Only the remarkable insights of the colonist Counselor bridge the cultural rifts, permitting the groups to lay aside their greater shares of fear and suspicion. The other is the remnant of a black budget genetic research facility-a Cadre of stoic and fanatical soldiers preying upon the blue-skinned enemy which decimated them.Īfter a bloody introduction, the Cadre and the Colonists discover they are as alien to one another as the hated Blueskins. One is a colonist expedition, plodding through space with the thinnest hope of finding a new world to settle. Yet two pockets of humanity still cling to life.

Over one thousand years have passed since humans breathed terrestrial air.īurned from Earth and the colonies by a ruthless enemy, mankind is believed extinct.
