Galaxies collide in a thrilling new series from bestselling author Ian Douglas, while the last humans in the world encounter off against a new threat

2162. Thirty-eight years after first get in touch with, Lord Commander Grayson St. Clair qualified prospects the Tellus Advertisement Astra on an unparalleled expedition towards the Galactic Core, carrying more than a million researchers, diplomats, soldiers, and AIs. Despite his reservations about their alien hosts, St. Clair is deeply committed to his people-especially after they’re sucked into a black opening and spat out four billion years in the foreseeable future.

Civilizations have got risen and fallen. The Andromeda Galaxy is definitely drifting into the Milky Way. And Earth is certainly most definitely a distant memory space. All that counts now is success. But mainly because the ship’s Marines seek out allies amid ancient ruins and strange new planetary structures, St. Clair must wrap his mind around an enemy capable of harnessing a weapon of incomprehensible power: space itself.