Carmen Valen continues her revenge plots, designing more apparel to hobble both women and now men as well. The novel begins around 1207, covering some forty years. A new alien Sector ID Minister Emeryk Donat arrives, replacing the disgraced Lech, but he is unmarried. Lord Valen, Carmen's uncle, takes advantage of that, inserting Adelina into the minister's life. Within a few year's time, Carmen's plans of hobbling the key ruling men and women become widely adopted. She also brings her fourteen year old granddaughter Nita into the business, setting her up as the teen fashion model. The lords...

The survivors of the Valen coup, namely all of the body-modified close advisors and associates of the late Lord Paco Valen, fled south to Villa del Rey, a small coastal town thousands of miles from Valen. While most all were severely hobbled, they had powerful mentales gifts. Hence, they decided to form their own tower, their own Circulo de la Torres, the Renegade Tower. Forming a new tower was totally illegal Help came from the ancient god Calder, God of the Oceans and Rivers. While the Underground prevented the God of War, Wystan, from awakening, no one knew that Calder alone awoke. He saw...

The Imperium controls one spiral arm while the Federation of Planets controls the other. Recently, the two skirmished on the outer edges of the spiral arms where each arm was close to the others, at witnessed by the attack on Ashford-5's fuel refinery on one of their moons. In 1270, full-scale war broke out between the two and Ashford-5 or Tierra finds itself in the middle of galactic warfare. Josh pilots a Federation transport ship filled with commandos to destroy the Imperium fuel refinery on their moon. After setting off the massive explosion, the transport is hit by fire and crash lands...

During the war years, Neva Burkhardt plied her skills as a telepath, working her way up the power ladder, until she reached two of the six Legates and the President of the Imperium. These three top Imperium leaders needed her unique services, but also greatly feared her, particularly since she seduced the President and since a single thought from her could kill. The most powerful Sector ID Minister in the Imperium, Lena Squire, investigated the kidnapping of Senator Isabella Valen and discovered what had happened, but could not pursue it because of the ongoing war with the Federation, which...

Zarita heads off to the Imperium Senate in 1292. However, powerful men began their own personal attempts to gain ultimate power. Legate Emeryk set his sights on eliminating and replacing President Snarry. Unknown to all, three of the wealthiest men in the Imperium, the Consortium, had their own plans. Now that their secret support of the Gamelon-3 "milking procedure" had ended, they set about cornering the market on fuel needed by virtually every spaceship in the Imperium. They also began devising a way to remove their lackey, President Snarry. Throughout the Imperium, recovery from the...

With the Imperium now taking extreme measures to safeguard this terrible bio genetic agent, new methods were found to steal samples. It began with an interception of a delivery from Aquila Prime Genetics Research Laboratory, acquired by Father Janos of the True Believers, who delivered it to Jan Rumani, was the grandson of the late Bindaz Rumani, founder of Mal Dynamics and a member of the old Consortium and whom Zarita had killed, along with his two compatriots. Jan wanted revenge the rare earths found on the heavily populated planet of Aquila Prime, but that world charged exorbitant prices...

Nia Elain Compton was eighteen and a hermaphrodite. Adopted when she was three days' old by a pair of deep space explorers, she was raised on the Eagle's Seed, drifting among the stars, prospecting for new planets. They landed on Metcalf-4, discovering two competing primitive cultures, the Rus and the Sud, hunter-gatherers and agrarians. However, there was a third group, the Slavers, on this world, who kidnapped men and women, forcing them to work for them. The Slave Winds blew finely powdered psi-crystal dust, which if inhaled usually caused madness and suicided. A few survived and developed...

The first part of Captain Nia Elain's voyages of discovery cover the period from early 1378 through late 1381, and serves as a backdrop of events that end the Imperium. The emperor of the Ataro Empire is still the strongest political leader and wisely finances the Eagle's Seed on a voyage of discovery of the halo worlds. Why? Three key points. First, one of the brilliant nova on Aquila Prime, Alexandra, has invented a revolutionary hydrogen engine and fuel collection system, which if works, will provide unlimited sub-light cruising. Second, one of Ashford-5's telepaths, Hans, has invented a...

The Imperium crumbled, but the Ataro Empire continued to survive. The Federation of Planets controlled the other spiral arm, and Emperor Bino desperately needed inside information about this group. Allies or enemies? He sent Captain Nia Elain and the Eagle's Seed exploration ship into the Federation of Planets' space, seeking to discover the origin planet of the human race, a benign goal that would offend no one. She brought along a skeleton crew composed mostly of women, wholly non-threatening. Indeed, the civilizations within this spiral arm were much older than the Imperium arm worlds....

June 1382, the humaniform robots met to decide how to recover from the nuclear attack on Aquila Prime and their millions of nova. After a very long haul, June 1450, Dr. Lelos Smith finally graduated four doctorate students, the first of the new breed of nova to obtain their PhDs. As they entered the real world, they quickly discovered something was very wrong with their world. Soon, they discovered that they alone were walking on their world. Millions of others were in a virtual reality world, getting their educations, while unknown to them, their bodies were lying in tanks below ground, kept...