Volume 12. After how long? More than a thousand years after Aurora joins the EPF, her children still sleep in stasis chambers, waiting to be awakened to fight what they know will be the final battle. But no one knew it would be this long. It’s the dawn of the thirty-first century and mankind has grown weary of a war that has lasted a quarter of a century. Most humans died when the Ratahn came and burned the earth. In the days to follow, while we were still reeling from the first strike, all other colonies suffered monumental losses. Ninety percent of humanity was wiped out in the first waves of the attack, but this only served to anger us. Over twenty five years later, with all of Earth Alliance working in one concerted effort to either win a losing battle or go out in a memorable fashion, a few people assigned to babysit a backwater depot make a discovery of such magnitude that it promises to change the tide of the war. But which way? Will the last stand of humanity be waged in the shadow of the scarred earth? Or will an ally centuries forgotten bring an end to a blood feud over a millennium in the making? When the alarms sound aboard the ancient starship NEC Legion, will Athena finally draw her last breath? All things must come to end, but endings are nothing more than beginnings in disguise.
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