Chapter 1. Our story begins with the discovery of a planet orbiting Proxima Centauri. The alien inhabitants of Proxima b are just as bewildered by the curiosity of Homo sapiens.
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Chapter 1. Our story begins with the discovery of a planet orbiting Proxima Centauri. The alien inhabitants of Proxima b are just as bewildered by the curiosity of Homo sapiens.
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Chapter 2. With the help of an alien species, the Proxima b inhabitants use a star-drive to accelerate their spacecraft to Alpha Centauri in less than a year. They quickly become an immense source of energy and knowledge for the neighboring planets, including Earth.
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Chapter 2. With the help of an alien species, the Proxima b inhabitants use a star-drive to accelerate their spacecraft to Alpha Centauri in less than a year. They quickly become an immense source of energy and knowledge for the neighboring planets, including Earth.
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Chapter 3. The presence of Proxima b sends Earth a signal: It is time for humanity to begin a journey to the stars. But before humanity’s first interstellar vessel can leave orbit, the planet’s first interstellar war begins.
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Chapter 3. The presence of Proxima b sends Earth a signal: It is time for humanity to begin a journey to the stars. But before humanity’s first interstellar vessel can leave orbit, the planet’s first interstellar war begins.
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Chapter 4. A generation later, the starship has reached its destination. Its mission has begun: to send a message across the universe, and to explore the universe, to prepare the way for the eventual colonization of faraway worlds.
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Chapter 4. A generation later, the starship has reached its destination. Its mission has begun: to send a message across the universe, and to explore the universe, to prepare the way for the eventual colonization of faraway worlds.
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Chapter 5. Just as the starship leaves the solar system, it’s discovered by a mysterious alien species—the first in an extraterrestrial invasion that will change humanity forever.
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Chapter 5. Just as the starship leaves the solar system, it’s discovered by a mysterious alien species—the first in an extraterrestrial invasion that will change humanity forever.
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Chapter 6. In the wake of a devastating alien attack on Earth, which kills more than nine million people, a small number of remaining survivors huddle in what was once Las Vegas, trying to save what remains of the human race.
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Chapter 6. In the wake of a devastating alien attack on Earth, which kills more than nine million people, a small number of remaining survivors huddle in what was once Las Vegas, trying to save what remains of the human race.
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Chapter 7. But humanity has no way of knowing that a fleet of alien vessels is on its way. And the visitors have brought with them an ancient and powerful technology, a technology that will help change the face of the human world in profound ways.
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Chapter 7. But humanity has no way of knowing that a fleet of alien vessels is on its way. And the visitors have brought with them an ancient and powerful technology, a technology that will help change the face of the human world in profound ways.
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Chapter 8. As the alien fleet nears Earth, it releases a plague that wipes out 90% of the human population.
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Chapter 8. As the alien fleet nears Earth, it releases a plague that wipes out 90% of the human population.
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Chapter 9. After a horrific nuclear war, more than a billion people are left dead. The last survivors live in a few walled cities that have managed to survive in the toxic wasteland that used to be Earth.
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Chapter 9. After a horrific nuclear war, more than a billion people are left dead. The last survivors live in a few walled cities that have managed to survive in the toxic wasteland that used to be Earth.
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Chapter 10. Over the next million years, humanity is forced to adapt.
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Chapter 10. Over the next million years, humanity is forced to adapt.
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Chapter 11. Humanity finds a way to overcome its enemies. With their planet destroyed, the aliens are forced to move to a new home.
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Chapter 11. Humanity finds a way to overcome its enemies. With their planet destroyed, the aliens are forced to move to a new home.
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Chapter 12. The aliens eventually create a small group of human-like “worms” to create a parasite culture that will take over the planet.
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Chapter 12. The aliens eventually create a small group of human-like “worms” to create a parasite culture that will take over the planet.
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Chapter 13. To find a way to protect the human population, humanity creates a vast fleet of interstellar spacecraft to guard humanity against the future attacks of the alien worms.
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Chapter 13. To find a way to protect the human population, humanity creates a vast fleet of interstellar spacecraft to guard humanity against the future attacks of the alien worms.
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Chapter 14. To further protect the human species, humanity begins the task of breeding aliens into a group of sentient and peaceful human-like life forms.
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Chapter 14. To further protect the human species, humanity begins the task of breeding aliens into a group of sentient and peaceful human-like life forms.
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Chapter 15. To protect the population of humans from alien violence, humanity releases a massive flood of chemicals into the atmosphere, killing billions, including the alien aliens.
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Chapter 15. To protect the population of humans from alien violence, humanity releases a massive flood of chemicals into the atmosphere, killing billions, including the alien aliens.
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Chapter 16. With the aliens eliminated, Earth becomes humanity’s only defender against the universe.
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Chapter 16. With the aliens eliminated, Earth becomes humanity’s only defender against the universe.
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Chapter 17. The universe itself begins to change.
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Chapter 17. The universe itself begins to change.
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Chapter 18. With its population nearing extinction, humanity finds a solution: The creation of clones who can populate the new colony ships.
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Chapter 18. With its population nearing extinction, humanity finds a solution: The creation of clones who can populate the new colony ships.
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Chapter 19. With hundreds of new colony ships going to seed, humanity turns its attention to another issue: the aliens who’ve survived the first attack.
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Chapter 19. With hundreds of new colony ships going to seed, humanity turns its attention to another issue: the aliens who’ve survived the first attack.
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Chapter 20. In response to the second alien attack, humanity creates the first starships powered by wormhole technology. But the battles will only escalate.
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Chapter 20. In response to the second alien attack, humanity creates the first starships powered by wormhole technology. But the battles will only escalate.
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Chapter 21. With the aliens defeated, humanity begins to explore the galaxy. They call it “The Great Diaspora.”
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Chapter 21. With the aliens defeated, humanity begins to explore the galaxy. They call it “The Great Diaspora.”
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Chapter 22. Nearly a million years later, humanity has left the galaxy.
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Chapter 22. Nearly a million years later, humanity has left the galaxy.
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Chapter 23. But humanity is nowhere near safe.
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Chapter 23. But humanity is nowhere near safe.
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Chapter 24. A new weapon is discovered.
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Chapter 24. A new weapon is discovered.
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Chapter 25. The weapon is tested.
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Chapter 25. The weapon is tested.
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Chapter 26. In response to the weapon, humanity creates a vast fleet of starships powered by the weapon.
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Chapter 26. In response to the weapon, humanity creates a vast fleet of starships powered by the weapon.
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Chapter 27. With the ship fully operational, humanity begins a generation of testing with one of the new human-alien hybrids.
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Chapter 27. With the ship fully operational, humanity begins a generation of testing with one of the new human-alien hybrids.
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Chapter 28. Humanity discovers that it has no way to control where the hybrid’s home planet is in the universe.
