The Carter's enjoy colony life on Agate. The K'Tai invade. Can the Carters use their secret past to save Agate, and their family from the K'Tai aggressors?
Humanity, previously dependent on the K'Tai for its Redlazore, discovers vast resources of the most valuable mineral in the galaxy on Agate and are now free to expand across the stars: Redlazore is also the key component to faster-than-light travel.
The planet Agate is, however, the human colony-world which lies perilously close to the K'Tai Imperium and the K'Tai resolve to put the upstart humans back in their place.
The K'Tai Imperium invades Agate.
On the ground, in the midst of the whirlwind conflict is the Carter family: Dave a mid-level exec is working in downtown Gemini City, Sue his wife, a high school teacher and their teenage twins, Jodee and Chris are on a school trip to a Redlazore mine.
In space, the League Border Patrol face overwhelming odds as the K'Tai fleet advance.
The K'Tai soldiers of the infamous Black Legion descend on Agate, opposed by the meagre, poorly-armed militia and a sprinkling of regular marines. The planet and those upon it are engulfed in the flames of war.
The K'Tai, however, did not count on the Carters. For the Carters have a secret. A secret which will cost the K'Tai Imperium dearly.
The Carters are Agate's human population's only hope.
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When Lord Harvik received the summons to appear before Lavan XI, Gerent of the K’Tai Imperium, he had thought he would be ordered to take his command against yet another secessionist system: a mission which was becoming all too common among the fleet, and one which Harvik felt a growing unease in carrying out. As Harvik entered the Citadel, the ancestral home of the Lavan family since the earliest days of their centuries-old dynasty and the beating heart of the K’Tai Imperium, he felt the weight of history bear heavily on his broad shoulders as his footsteps rang on the worn cobbles and echoed from the ancient walls encompassing the Citadel.
The historic fortress dominated the skyline of the K’Tai Imperium's capital city of Farak, a sprawling metropolis covering over 243,000 square kilometers of the planet Tarava’s surface like some giant leech made of concrete and metal. A population of 200 million serviced the bureaucratic needs of an Imperium which held sway over 300 star systems.
As tradition demanded, Harvik paused as he reached the center of the courtyard, for here, gazing down upon all who entered the Citadel, was the 100-meter-tall statue of Rig. Positioned equidistantly along the circumference of the statue were the guardians of his teaching, the Kem Tak, their pure white armor polished to a point where Harvik saw his face reflected in their chest plates. The Kem Tak were promoted as the epitome of the K’Tai warrior. Standing two metres tall, their dark blue skin served to highlight their unblinking, ice blue eyes which stared out from below thick, heavily boned cranial plates which curved down sharply to meet at a pointed jaw.
