SS Scavenger - DX-1017 - The Famine and The Search

By Daniel R Bingamon

When the independent starship Scavenger DX-1017 answers a humanitarian call from the world of Garos, the crew expects famine relief.
What they uncover instead is absence.
Garos was once protected by a Guardian-an ancient system capable of sustaining entire worlds. That Guardian is gone. The famine is not natural. It is the consequence of something being deliberately removed.
In The Famine, the Scavenger crew races to save a world on the brink while uncovering evidence of a deeper, hidden crime.
In The Search, the investigation expands across star systems-from abandoned worlds and illicit transit technology to the shattered remains of a Guardian network once thought small and rare. As truths surface, the crew faces a harder challenge than discovery: deciding when not to act.
Powerful technologies are recovered. Guardians are freed. Worlds wait for consent instead of conquest.
And one question remains:
Who protects the Guardians?
This volume combines two complete stories in the Scavenger DX-1017 universe-quiet, character-driven science fiction where ethics matter as much as engines, and where the future is shaped not by force, but by patience.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0GKG3CMJJ
• ISBN13: 9798246073681
• Release Date: January 2026
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 228 Pages
• Weight: 0.68 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"