Sol’s warships paid the ultimate cost for threatening the Haraken and New Terran worlds. Right now, Haraken Leader Alex Racine and his Méridien partner, Renée de Guirnon, are involved in a eager gamble to avoid a battle between their worlds and United Earth’s (UE) massive pushes before it starts.

What’s Alex’s grand strategy? He hasn’t a hint, but his people have confidence in him and hope he will discover a way to safeguard them. Alex does have powerful property: the Haraken space fleet; the genius SADEs, cell about Sol: A Metallic Ships Novel Haraken digital intelligences; and the defected UE scientists, who are offering an abundance of intelligence about their home globe.

Coming to Sol, Alex discovers the perfect opportunity to make his statement to the UE Supreme Tribunal by means of the ageing Idona Station, which has fallen into disrepair as UE militia and rebels battle for control. Alex points out his unorthodox program when he says, “The UE tribunes will succumb when we overpower them with prosperity.”

The Harakens work to meld Idona’s militia, stationers, and rebels into the Haraken’s view from the world, one based on peace, purpose, and equality. The Tribunal reaches odds over the Harakens’ disturbance in their system, forcing the rifts in the UE’s political framework to widen into chasms.

In the exciting conclusion to Haraken, the series’ previous book, Sol is the story of a clash of cultures and ideals as Earthers struggle to discover a way toward a successful new future.