Jon Hawkins and his crew are exhausted and homesick. They've destroyed the alien machine menace, going deep into the Kuiper Belt to annihilate the secret AI base. From out here, the Sun looks like just another star. It's a lonely existence. They're ready to go home. What they don't know-what no one could-was that the AI Destroyer was only a scout. More alien vessels drop out of hyperspace. This is an AI Assault. The clock to human extinction has begun ticking. Jon and his crew are tired, homesick and pissed off. They've fought too hard and bled too much to quit now. They're going to find a...

It finally happened. Commander Thrax Ti Ix created a hyper-spatial tube for the Swarm Imperium. Across thousands of light-years, a vast armada of warships is heading for Earth to burn the homeworld down to its bedrock as the Swarm begins its genocidal campaign against the human race. No one-not the New Men, the Spacers, the Wahhabi Caliphate or Star Watch-has faced such staggering odds. Alone or united, it makes no difference. Captain Maddox has a last-ditch plan. He's returning to the null region of last voyage to grab the ancient Destroyers hidden there. But an immortal entity of evil...