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Out between stars and planets that left Earth behind many centuries ago, Ada Liu discovers a thriving but strangely archaic interstellar civilization - a Union of ancient colonies that have survived a war of apocalyptic proportions. Expecting to uncover the roots of Earth's downfall, she instead finds this society built by strange humans and familiar aliens is threatening, bewildering, and not at all what she had hoped.
Her abandonment of Isavel
Worlds once alive are being destroyed; worlds once dormant must be brought back to life.
Weapons that have long been wielded must be returned to the sheath; things never truly grasped must be wielded as weapons.
What can Ada do, as planets burn under the inexorable advance of a machine fleet? What can Isavel do, from a shackled homeworld that has not been heard from in a thousand years?
And what might they both do, if they were no longer