Earth has been a scarred ruin for three decades, its scattered people struggling amid the poisoned and radioactive wreckage of the final war between its despotic Superpowers. While the inhabitants of Earth struggle to survive, out on the frontier, on a thousand worlds, mankind thrives and grows, building new civilizations and looking boldly to the future. But man has never been able to live in peace, and even Earth's sad fate has failed to slow the...