First contact was friendly.
When aliens trundled a gate to other worlds into the Solar System, the
world reacted with awe, hope and fear. The first aliens to come through,
the Glatun, were peaceful traders and the world breathed a sigh of
relief.
Who control the orbitals, controls the world.
When the Horvath came through, they announced their ownership by
dropping rocks on three cities and gutting them. Since then, they've
held Terra as their own personal fiefdom. With their control of the
orbitals, there's no way to win and Earth's governments have accepted
the status quo.
Live free or die.
To free the world from the grip of the Horvath is going to take an
unlikely hero. A hero unwilling to back down to alien or human
governments, unwilling to live in slavery and with enough hubris, if not
stature, to think he can win.
Fortunately, there's Tyler Vernon. And he has bigger plans than merely
getting us from under the fist of the Horvath.
Troy Rising is a book in three parts--Live Free or Die being the
first part--detailing the freeing of Earth from alien conquerors, the
first steps into space using off-world technologies and the creation of
Troy, a thousand trillion ton battle station designed to secure the
Solar System.
