The Military Form

The Sleepers Awake

Eons ago, a war was fought to the death between the parasitic and ferocious Vang and a race of gifted but doomed froglike creatures. As a last resort, the gentle beings used the Starhammer to smash the Vang spacefleets and homeworld, leaving but few survivors. For a billion years a silvery pumpkin-shaped capsule drifted through space...

More than three thousand years after Humanity first went to the stars, an asteroid miner named Seed of Hope was illegally prospecting for radioactives in the Forbidden Areas of the Saskatch star system. There it chanced across an alluring silvery object...