While aliens forge psychic blades from star-metal, a human girl sharpens a 200,000-year-old fossil. The combat AI doesn't know what to do with a weapon that remembers.

A desperate alien begs the council for help. Denied seven times, she gets drunk and meets humans. Now a pirate queen is looting her enemy's homeworld.

1,400 alien Warships fire resonance weapons tuned to shatter human hulls. Our counter-pulse turns their song into an echo that devours them.

An empire threatens humanity with 4,200 warships. They don't know about the 14,000 ships we built in secret for 60 years. Patience is a weapon.

They kidnapped a human diplomat’s family to prove empathy is weakness. Earth sent him back with 50 warships, a fleet, and five years of cultural intelligence.