Storm on the Frontier-Part One (The Demonstar Series) by Dalton Wolf

Description

Currently numbering nine Member Races and over twenty Candidate Races that populate several hundred worlds throughout the Hope Galaxy, the Galactic Worlds Alliance is a constantly expanding entity with over two thousand years of history. But something is amiss along the ever-expanding Frontier of the Alliance… Ominous whisperings of grim events begin to surface and echo throughout portions of Fleet and the civilian population. Rumors persist about whole colonies that disappear without a trace, but the Senate and Fleet echelon steadfastly deny anything out of the ordinary. Facing opposition and procrastination from a Congress frozen by fear, the Chief of Intelligence takes action, declaring an emergency along the Frontier. Short on resources along the border worlds, he is forced by circumstances to conscript an old friend – a civilian shuttle pilot and part-time living legend – into Fleet service with special orders: Investigate the mysterious incidents along the Frontier and track the events to their source… at all costs. Now, in an effort to save the border worlds Pilot Baran Igashu must set out with an elite, handpicked team on a hazardous mission to unfamiliar and unknown destinations. But their perilous journey might very well uncover an ancient menace so evil and irrepressible that it threatens to annihilate the whole of the known galaxy, leaving no trace their civilization ever existed…