Off Armageddon Reef by David Weber6/30/2023 Nimue accepts the mission to destroy Langhorne's legacy and uses mobile spy technology to examine the world. Nimue awakens 800 years later and is informed of what has come to pass. Though Shan-Wei had not predicted how far Langhorne would go, she had prepared a backup plan: She secreted away the android that contained the personality and memories of a heroic human military officer, Nimue Alban, with all the technology and weapons needed to uplift Safehold. This nearly eliminates every colonist with memory of Earth. A survivor avenges her, killing Langhorne and most of his clique. When Pei Shan-Wei defies him, he wipes out her faction with a terrible secret weapon. Eric Langhorne plots to rule as the deified founder of the Church of God Awaiting, a religion that proscribes innovation as heresy punishable by torture and death. They plan to temporarily block industrialization to avoid detection, but civil war erupts over the corrupt colony administrator's scheme to trap mankind on their refuge world at a Middle Ages level of technology. After a desperate and ultimately lost struggle against a genocidal alien foe in the 24th Century, the 8 million survivors of Earth flee to Safehold to carefully rebuild civilization.
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |