War is forever
The people on Earth no longer remember how the human race was nearly
obliterated centuries earlier during the terror visited upon them by the
merciless Xul. But the Star Marines, thirty thousand light years from
home, know all too well the horror that still lives.
In the year 2886, in the midst of the intergalactic war that has been
raging nonstop for nearly a decade, the unthinkable has occurred.
Intelligence has located the gargantuan hidden homeworld of humankind's
dedicated foe, the brutal, unstoppable Xul. The time has come for the
courageous men and women of the 1st Marine Interstellar Expeditionary
Force to strike the killing blow. But misguided politics on an Earth
that no longer supports their mission could prove the Marine's greatest
enemy--as they plunge bravely into the maelstrom of conflict . . . and
into the heart of a million-year-old mystery.