" S]pace opera that plays out on a grand scale, and Young conduct s] it with aplomb."--Pop Cults, the website of Geek and Alternative Culture For over seven hundred years, the Spartan Republic's citizens have known one truth: Terra is coming. Descendants of exiles who dared to defy an emperor, the star nation's 70 billion citizens spent the centuries training, arming...and waiting. In 3035, Leftenant Ian Campbell, Spartan Defense Forces (SDF), discovers...