SOVEREIGN:
R.M. Meluch

Earth weak and to fall..

Earth is a great powerful, united spacefaring world, but is faced with an enemy it will have to someday fight. And most likely lose to. Once they destroyed a colony Sixus and eradicated the settlers: it has replaced them with a military base and continued to threaten- but Earth is not ready, humanity avoiding facing the inevitable- dithers meshed in its own politics-a torch predicts-

"Earth will fall in the first hour of battle unless aided at that weakest time."
A surprised Earth needs allies in this time of need.. But the greatest will remain anonymous: it is a single advanced ship. It’s name Tesah- it’s source the subject of this book: a small insignificant- looking planet named Arana-

The Aranian space fleet includes the first Bay Royalist to enter space.. for to be a Royalist is to be a part of a society with strong and clear ties- familial links that cannot be broken-ruled by a royalty whose breeding has improved the race-

1; Story Of The Bays' Lifelines

Except by hatred where there should have been love-

2: Bay Royalists

But the fledgling spaceforce does not originate in the Bay community. It is a product of the North, of different people, of Arana, so long resident only the Royalist's remember their coming. Without the Royalists’ breeding and intrinsic values, they are people like us, but divided into nations willing to live in the same world as areas shunned by the Royalists and others determined to seize the South by force to avoid the extremes of summer and winter in a two-sun star system..

3; Northerners/ later characters..

But then of course a man must leave his world sometimes to save what he loves: Even if the cost is beyond his imaginings..

4; Characters outside Arana-




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