A fearful Earth does not wish to lose direct control of its precious war machine, and there are fears of civil war.Īll that Callay has to oppose the warships of the Fleet is the Callayan Defense Force CDF a newly formed group of raw recruits led by a politically hamstrung general. So begins the third installment of this gripping trilogy from an exciting new sci fi author.Ī powerful faction of conservative Fleet captains has surrounded Callay, at Earth’s behest, and is threatening a blockade or worse. Two years after the unhatching of Callayan President Neiland’s plot to make the capital city of Tanusha the center of the Federation, Callay is under siege. As she struggles for her place and survival in a new world, Cassandra must forge new friendships with old enemies, while attempting to confront the most disturbing and deadly realities of her own existence. But her presence in Tanusha reveals other fault lines, and when Federal agents attempt to assassinate the Callayan president, she finds herself thrust into the service of her former enemies, using her lethal skills to attempt to protect her former enemies from forces beyond their ability to control. Cassandra finds herself at the mercy of a society whose values preclude her own right even to exist. Many in the League and the Federation have cause to want her dead, and Cassandra’s history, inevitably, catches up with her.
Cassandra discovers that even in Tanusha, the powerful entities of this bloody conflict have wound their tentacles. But the war between the League and the Federation was ideological as much as political, with much of that ideological dispute regarding the very existence of artificial sentience and the rules that govern its creation.
Her chosen world is Callay, and its enormous, decadent capital metropolis of Tanusha, where the concerns of the war are literally and figuratively so many light years away. She deserts the League and heads incognito into the space of her former enemy, the Federation, in search of a new life.
But with her intellect come questions, and a moral awakening. Cassandra is an experimental design more intelligent, more creative, and far more dangerous than any that have preceded her. Crossover is the first novel in a series which follows the adventures of Cassandra Kresnov, an artificial person, or android, created by the League, one side of an interstellar war against the more powerful, conservative Federation.
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