Vatican Abdicator

BC and Al Salid meet and work together to keep the Eldred from wiping out the population of Mars and Dolomay makes another appearance!

BC heads to Wentworth Station to meet with Wentworth and the UTZ Council. Dolomay attacks again, his ships now souped up with stolen alien tech.

BC travels out to the asteroids to take a look at The Project's new facilities on Ceres and the new shipyard, now two months old. While he visits the old Project base, the Flaze and the Domo show up unannounced - and they want to talk to BC!

How do you capture an Eldred ship? BC works with Project scientists to make it happen. If they can capture one, Dell and Krish will try to reverse engineer the technology... and apply it to our ships!

The UTZ Council meets on Lunar Prime. Governor Amanda Erskine visits BC to find out what's going on. As they meet, BC decides they need a new council... a war council!

Anita and the other Project scientists escape Dolomay's raid on the asteroid base and arrive at Lunar Prime... only to discover Dolomay has hit the old Project base on the Moon as well! Dolomay's forces are on a rampage - they attack Mars as BC and Anita reunite!

The Khalif joins the war council, and BC fills him in on the Ancient Enemy, Dolomay and the Eldred. BC also proposes "something radical" - some would say impossible - to the Khalif and M'Bekke.

Anita and her Project scientists head back to the asteroids as aliens show up on the Moon! The Domo and the Flaze arrive at Lunar Prime with a surprising request... and BC does some traveling, too, as he heads to Mars to a signing ceremony with the Khalif.

M'Bekke and BC discuss "the book". What should be included? Left out? BC speaks with the Khalif and Wentworth as well. BC then heads out to the asteroids to check out new ships using new tech reverse engineered and developed by The Project.

BC leads the way as the UTZ gives way to a new government. Humankind unites under the the threat of war as the Solar Alliance! The Domo and the Flaze approach BC with an intriguing offer. BC also discovers what an old friend has been up to, and he encounters... something... in his dreams!

Waiting for the other shoe to drop... BC heads out to Ceres Central to see Anita, get caught up on the Project scientists' efforts reverse engineering alien tech, and meet with the "governors" of the Project's "colonies" from Cat's Eye, Rigel Four, Crankshaft and Depot.

The Domo contact BC with information about an upcoming attack on humankind by the Eldred, and inform BC that the Domo now consider the agreement between us and them to be at an end. BC plots strategy with Anita, as they begin to make tough choices about the battle looming ahead. And BC has a very strange and revealing dream...

BC develops battle plans over breakfast. Krish gets in touch about a new technological development he thinks might be of use.

The Domo have warned of imminent war with the Eldred. The waiting game has begun in earnest. BC must deal with resistance from the colony on Cat's Eye even as he keeps the combined forces of humankind on alert, waiting for the Eldred to strike.

The war is on! The Eldred attack the Project asteroid base. BC and the forces of the Solar Alliance fight back! Will Dolomay be showing up soon? How many "fronts" can the Solar Alliance fight on at once? The battle rages in this second half of Chapter Nineteen!