Life in the inhabited galaxy changes rapidly. The first intergalactic expedition. A new intelligent race. The galaxy is finally split into two camps that watch each other warily. Everyone understands that soon war will come—terrible war, in which perhaps there won’t be winners. And, from the shadows, an alien civilization—unknown to anyone except the Aarn Order—is observing the situation: the Farsen Confederation, using technologies of its distant ancestors who destroyed the Forerunners six million years ago.
The last truce before the apocalypse…