num_pages: 399
description: A quarter of a million people die in the destruction of the moon Cresta. The League civil war is accelerating out of control but projections indicate that as their technologically induced sociological dysfunction continues all of humanity may face a similar fate. In the aftermath of Cresta's destruction Sandy Kresnov discovers the alien Talee operative Cai in Tanusha there to learn just how far the technologically-induced insanity has gone. The Talee have seen this before and they are terrified of anything threatening a recurrence. Meanwhile Sandy's old nemesis Renaldo Takewashi the self-proclaimed father of synthetic intelligence comes to the Federation seeking asylum. Talewashi may even have a cure--previously unknown Talee technology implanted into a human child subject--Sandy's little boy Kiril. But it is exactly this technology that the Talee fear and they will exterminate anyone caught using it. Now Sandy must fight to save her family from a terrible new threat but doing so may plunge humanity into another destructive war between humans or worse against the massively-advanced Talee. And what final secret are the Talee protecting about the origins of synthetic humans like Sandy that could either liberate Sandy's fellow synthetics from bondage or spell disaster for all humanity?
language: English
title: Originator
publisher: Pyr