Septos
Time – the twenty-fifth century. Situation: after the Biogenic Wars when mutant humans nearly destroyed Earth, the Colonial worlds are held in subservience by Earth’s Ministry of Interplanetary Affairs, and its so-called police – the Interplanetary PeaceKeepers. For the Colonies, stunted by Earth’s total ban on human mutation and quantum drive technologies, there is one hope – reaching the worlds across the desolate vast pocket known as the Hansky Void. One planet could make the trip possible. It sits half-way across the void, a perfect stepping-stone provided a supply base could be put on its surface. They named the world Galapagos because most of its surface is ocean and all the lands are just many islands, large and small, from which erupting volcanoes had been seen by both Earthly and Colonial observers. The stage is set for a struggle between Earth and the Colonies, except no-one has an inkling of what had already taken place on Galapagos, and how that was going to turn into the greatest threat – or the greatest treasure – that humanity had ever known. From tour guide and virtual-tourism-trip maker Helen Gonzalez to rich, mad, Cyrus Grouse, and the overbearing and ambitious Colonel Naomi Fewtell, among other characters all vying for a piece of Galapagos, comes an explosive mix that puts on a knife-edge the future of humanity.