A dashing young research scientist, Lourdes Cassandra, is suddenly sent out to the Frontier on a secret mission. An ancient alien base has been discovered and the technologies may lead self aware AI and the development of Transhuman Singularity. But Out-Space is a realm of warlords and psychopathic cultures and anti-government fanatics. In Sunrider warship, she begins her mission..Deneb IV, 2400 CE.The shift in power from the Sol System to Deneb System, and the conflicts of the era seem inevitable from our long view back. For someone living in the twenty-fifth Century, however, the violence and sudden reversals and advances among the worlds must have most certainly seemed a jarring billiards game of worlds. It was an obscure Medical Research facility on one of a hundred bustling boom-worlds that would come to define the age. A dashing young scientist, Lourdes Cassandra appears on the Galactic stage as if at a weightless moment of an apogee...-Princess Clairissa Maggio, Caldris "Deneb IV, Empire of Light and Darkness."