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Audio Book Playlist https://www.bitchute.com/playlist/O5xcSONeinzB/ Wizard's First Rule (Sword of Truth #1) by Terry Goodkind Full 1/3 Legend of the Seeker
Each of the novels in the Sword of Truth series reveals a "Wizard's Rule"—a magical principle that allows Wizards to be savvy manipulators of the world around them. The novel reveals the Wizard's First Rule: "Wizard's First Rule: people are stupid." Richard and Kahlan frowned even more. "People are stupid; given proper motivation, almost anyone will believe almost anything. Because people are stupid, they will believe a lie because they want to believe it's true, or because they are afraid it might be true. People's heads are full of knowledge, facts, and beliefs, and most of it is false, yet they think it all true. People are stupid; they can only rarely tell the difference between a lie and the truth, and yet they are confident they can, and so are all the easier to fool."
"Because of Wizards First Rule, the old wizards created Confessors, and Seekers, as a means of helping find the truth, when the truth is important enough. Darken Rahl knows the Wizard's Rules. He is using the first one. People need an enemy to feel a sense of purpose. It's easy to lead people when they have a sense of purpose. Sense of purpose is more important by far than the truth. In fact, truth has no bearing in this. Darken Rahl is providing them with an enemy, other than himself, a sense of purpose. People are stupid; they want to believe, so they do."

Audio Book Playlist https://www.bitchute.com/playlist/O5xcSONeinzB/ Wizard's First Rule (Sword of Truth #1) by Terry Goodkind Full 2/3 Legend of the Seeker
Each of the novels in the Sword of Truth series reveals a "Wizard's Rule"—a magical principle that allows Wizards to be savvy manipulators of the world around them. The novel reveals the Wizard's First Rule: "Wizard's First Rule: people are stupid." Richard and Kahlan frowned even more. "People are stupid; given proper motivation, almost anyone will believe almost anything. Because people are stupid, they will believe a lie because they want to believe it's true, or because they are afraid it might be true. People's heads are full of knowledge, facts, and beliefs, and most of it is false, yet they think it all true. People are stupid; they can only rarely tell the difference between a lie and the truth, and yet they are confident they can, and so are all the easier to fool."
"Because of Wizards First Rule, the old wizards created Confessors, and Seekers, as a means of helping find the truth, when the truth is important enough. Darken Rahl knows the Wizard's Rules. He is using the first one. People need an enemy to feel a sense of purpose. It's easy to lead people when they have a sense of purpose. Sense of purpose is more important by far than the truth. In fact, truth has no bearing in this. Darken Rahl is providing them with an enemy, other than himself, a sense of purpose. People are stupid; they want to believe, so they do."

Audio Book Playlist https://www.bitchute.com/playlist/O5xcSONeinzB/ Wizard's First Rule (Sword of Truth #1) by Terry Goodkind Full 3/3 Legend of the Seeker
Each of the novels in the Sword of Truth series reveals a "Wizard's Rule"—a magical principle that allows Wizards to be savvy manipulators of the world around them. The novel reveals the Wizard's First Rule: "Wizard's First Rule: people are stupid." Richard and Kahlan frowned even more. "People are stupid; given proper motivation, almost anyone will believe almost anything. Because people are stupid, they will believe a lie because they want to believe it's true, or because they are afraid it might be true. People's heads are full of knowledge, facts, and beliefs, and most of it is false, yet they think it all true. People are stupid; they can only rarely tell the difference between a lie and the truth, and yet they are confident they can, and so are all the easier to fool."
"Because of Wizards First Rule, the old wizards created Confessors, and Seekers, as a means of helping find the truth, when the truth is important enough. Darken Rahl knows the Wizard's Rules. He is using the first one. People need an enemy to feel a sense of purpose. It's easy to lead people when they have a sense of purpose. Sense of purpose is more important by far than the truth. In fact, truth has no bearing in this. Darken Rahl is providing them with an enemy, other than himself, a sense of purpose. People are stupid; they want to believe, so they do."

Audio Book Playlist https://www.bitchute.com/playlist/O5xcSONeinzB/ Alice in Wonderland Relaxing Reading for a Good Night's Sleep

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Audio Book Playlist https://www.bitchute.com/playlist/O5xcSONeinzB/ The Lion, The Witch & The Wardrobe - Relaxing Reading Bedtime Story for a Good Night's Sleep

I read The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe to help you sleep, softly spoken with rain sounds in the background, I hope you enjoy this bedtime story for grownups, children, whoever! Love this book. Subscribe for more, join me on Patreon to hear everything first and vote on what I read next.

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Audio Book Playlist https://www.bitchute.com/playlist/O5xcSONeinzB/ Relaxing Reading of 'The Wonderful Wizard of Oz' - Enjoy this calm relaxing story reading for sleep with the soothing voice of Elizabeth Grace.

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Audio Book Playlist https://www.bitchute.com/playlist/O5xcSONeinzB/ Leviathan Wakes 1/2 Science Fiction Interplanetary Space Adventure by James S. A. Corey - Humanity has colonized the solar system Mars, the Moon, the Asteroid Belt and beyond but the stars are still out of our reach. Jim Holden is XO of an ice miner making runs from the rings of Saturn to the mining stations of the Belt. When he and his crew stumble upon a derelict ship, the Scopuli, they find themselves in possession of a secret they never wanted. A secret that someone is willing to kill for and kill on a scale unfathomable to Jim and his crew. War is brewing in the system unless he can find out who left the ship and why. Detective Miller is looking for a girl. One girl in a system of billions, but her parents have money and money talks. When the trail leads him to the Scopuli and rebel sympathizer Holden, he realizes that this girl may be the key to everything. Holden and Miller must thread the needle between the Earth government, the Outer Planet revolutionaries, and secretive corporations and the odds are against them. But out in the Belt, the rules are different, and one small ship can change the fate of the universe.

Audio Book Playlist https://www.bitchute.com/playlist/O5xcSONeinzB/ Leviathan Wakes 2/2 Science Fiction Interplanetary Space Adventure by James S. A. Corey - Humanity has colonized the solar system Mars, the Moon, the Asteroid Belt and beyond but the stars are still out of our reach. Jim Holden is XO of an ice miner making runs from the rings of Saturn to the mining stations of the Belt. When he and his crew stumble upon a derelict ship, the Scopuli, they find themselves in possession of a secret they never wanted. A secret that someone is willing to kill for and kill on a scale unfathomable to Jim and his crew. War is brewing in the system unless he can find out who left the ship and why. Detective Miller is looking for a girl. One girl in a system of billions, but her parents have money and money talks. When the trail leads him to the Scopuli and rebel sympathizer Holden, he realizes that this girl may be the key to everything. Holden and Miller must thread the needle between the Earth government, the Outer Planet revolutionaries, and secretive corporations and the odds are against them. But out in the Belt, the rules are different, and one small ship can change the fate of the universe.

Planetside. Science Fiction - Mystery - Military - Outer Space - Interstellar - Thriller - Suspense - Audio book Playlist https://www.bitchute.com/playlist/O5xcSONeinzB/

Audio Book playlist https://www.bitchute.com/playlist/O5xcSONeinzB/ A World Out of Time is a science fiction novel by Larry Niven and published in 1976. It is set outside the Known Space universe of many of Niven's stories, but is otherwise fairly representative of his 1970s hard science fiction novels. The main part of the novel was originally serialized in Galaxy magazine as "Children of the State"; another part was originally published as the short story "Rammer". A World Out of Time placed fifth in the annual Locus Poll in 1977

Jerome Branch Corbell has incurable cancer and is cryogenically frozen in the year 1970 in the faint hope of a future cure. His body is revived in 2190 by an oppressive, totalitarian global government called "The State". His personality and memories are extracted (destroying his body in the process) and transferred into the body of a mindwiped criminal. After awakening, he is continually evaluated by Peerssa, a "checker", who has to decide whether he is worth keeping. With the threat of his own mindwiping looming, Corbell works hard to pass the various tests.

Audio Book Playlist https://www.bitchute.com/playlist/O5xcSONeinzB/ Solar Warden - Alien Secrets - Science Fiction... Or Is It?? by Ian Douglas - UFO Space Combat Time Travel
THE TRUTH HAS ALWAYS BEEN HERE
In the final days of World War II, the Allies ransacked Berlin. Third Reich scientists were highly sought out prizes for Americans and Russians desperate to possess the Nazi knowledge of nuclear firepower. But they failed to capture one of the most vital members of Adolf Hitler’s inner circle: SS Obergruppenfuhrer Hans Kammler. One of the engineers of Auschwitz, Kammler was also a liaison with the Nazis’ silent partners whose technological wonders nearly helped the Axis win the war—the alien species the Germans called the Eidechse.
More than seven decades later, U. S. Navy SEAL Lieutenant Commander Mark Hunter has witnessed the impossible. On a mission in North Korea, an unidentified flying object destroyed a compound developing weapons of mass destruction. Now, he has been recruited to join a government agency that has been harboring a secret alliance with extraterrestrials since 1947. Selected to lead an elite force of soldiers, Hunter will travel across the stars to help humanity stake its claim among greater intelligent life in the universe.
But the aliens who have infiltrated Earth and guided war mongering nations since the twentieth century have their own agendas
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Audio Book Playlist https://www.bitchute.com/playlist/O5xcSONeinzB/ Solar Warden - Alien Hostiles 1/2 - Science Fiction... Or Is It?
By exposing the sinister Saurians, Navy SEAL Lieutenant Commander Mark Hunter and his team have more than proven themselves. Yet the war between humanity and the intergalactic aliens has only begun—now they must save themselves and all of civilization.
The JSST—the Joint Space Strike Team Hunter has put together from all branches of the U.S. military—is again deployed on board the Earth starcraft carrier Hillenkoetter on a mission to probe a possible historical connection between the Saurians and the Nazi Third Reich. At a planet called Paradies orbiting the red giant star Aldebaran, they discover a long-rumored colony of expatriate Nazis... and the beginnings of a plan to enslave Earth under Nazi—and Saurian—rule.
With Earth at stake, governments deeply compromised, and evil at the door, Solar Warden must fight together to end it all…even if it means sacrificing everything.

Audio Book Playlist https://www.bitchute.com/playlist/O5xcSONeinzB/ Solar Warden - Alien Hostiles 2/2 - Science Fiction... Or Is It?
By exposing the sinister Saurians, Navy SEAL Lieutenant Commander Mark Hunter and his team have more than proven themselves. Yet the war between humanity and the intergalactic aliens has only begun—now they must save themselves and all of civilization.
The JSST—the Joint Space Strike Team Hunter has put together from all branches of the U.S. military—is again deployed on board the Earth starcraft carrier Hillenkoetter on a mission to probe a possible historical connection between the Saurians and the Nazi Third Reich. At a planet called Paradies orbiting the red giant star Aldebaran, they discover a long-rumored colony of expatriate Nazis... and the beginnings of a plan to enslave Earth under Nazi—and Saurian—rule.
With Earth at stake, governments deeply compromised, and evil at the door, Solar Warden must fight together to end it all…even if it means sacrificing everything.

The Lost Command by Vaugh Heppner (1/2) Science Fiction Space Travel - Audio Book Playlist https://www.bitchute.com/playlist/O5xcSONeinzB/
Starship Victory, a faithful alien spacecraft guarding its shattered system for ten thousand years agreed to come to Earth. Now, Captain Maddox and his crew have a new assignment. They must find Professor Ludendorff before the New Men do. The New Men need Ludendorff’s help so they can capture the alien starship. Maddox needs the neglected super-weapons repaired so he can rescue a Star Watch fleet trapped deep in enemy territory.
But time is running out for the stranded, battered fleet. They’re low on food, fuel and missiles. Worse for Maddox, Meta is missing, kidnapped by the enemy, while the alien personality in the AI struggles to adjust to this new era. Can Maddox pull everyone together or will the brilliant New Men win yet another stunning victory?

The Lost Command by Vaugh Heppner (2/2) Science Fiction Space Travel - Audio Book Playlist https://www.bitchute.com/playlist/O5xcSONeinzB/
Starship Victory, a faithful alien spacecraft guarding its shattered system for ten thousand years agreed to come to Earth. Now, Captain Maddox and his crew have a new assignment. They must find Professor Ludendorff before the New Men do. The New Men need Ludendorff’s help so they can capture the alien starship. Maddox needs the neglected super-weapons repaired so he can rescue a Star Watch fleet trapped deep in enemy territory.
But time is running out for the stranded, battered fleet. They’re low on food, fuel and missiles. Worse for Maddox, Meta is missing, kidnapped by the enemy, while the alien personality in the AI struggles to adjust to this new era. Can Maddox pull everyone together or will the brilliant New Men win yet another stunning victory?

A.I. Destroyer - Space Travel Alien Machine Science Fiction - Audio book Playlist https://www.bitchute.com/playlist/O5xcSONeinzB/ It came from deep space. It sent the signal. Now our computers are killing us, helping the enemy drive us into extinction. But some of us refuse to die. We fight back. We learn. Jon Hawkins revives from cryogenic sleep in a drifting SLN battleship. The crew is dead and the main computer has been destroyed. Jon is a soldier, the start of the resistance, the one man with the will to beat the alien death machines that have terminated a thousand races. This is our hour as we face the ultimate evil, the galactic destroyer of life

Audio Book Playlist https: www.bitchute.com/playlist/O5xcSONeinzB/ Greyhawk Series Book 1 Greyhawk Series Book 1
White Plume Mountain was turned into a novel by Paul Kidd in 1999 Fantasy Adventure Magic
Three companions who find themselves trapped in a city filled with warring priestly factions, devious machinations, and an angry fiend. To save the city, they must find three weapons of power, which lie in the most trap-laden, monster-infested place this side of Acererak's tomb: White Plume Mountain.

The Justicar is grim and intense, focused on his current task to the exclusion of personal comforts or material gain. He wears black armor and carries a sentient bastard sword called Benelux. The Justicar's companions include his sentient hellhound pelt Cinders, the faerie Escalla. The Justicar fought as a guerrilla against Iuz in the Greyhawk Wars, battling demons. Since then he has acquired, mostly against his will, a number of companions and ventured with them into White Plume Mountain.

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Audio Book Playlist https://www.bitchute.com/playlist/O5xcSONeinzB/ George Orwell 1984 Audio Book - Suppose To Be A Warning Not An Operation Manual - Audio Book Playlist https://www.bitchute.com/playlist/O5xcSONeinzB/
Big brother government surveillance police state dystopian future erase change history ministry department of truth peace obey conform socially enforced conformity control force subversive military war slogan song new normal free your mind bureaucracy civil service confess crimes executed communist communism leftist radical party member media news speak language

Part I
Chapter 1 - 0:00:09
Chapter 2 - 0:39:06
Chapter 3 - 0:57:43
Chapter 4 - 1:15:20
Chapter 5 - 1:37:17
Chapter 6 - 2:07:50
Chapter 7 - 2:20:13
Chapter 8 - 2:46:11

Part II
Chapter 1 - 3:32:47
Chapter 2 - 3:58:14
Chapter 3 - 4:19:08
Chapter 4 - 4:39:15
Chapter 5 - 5:00:11
Chapter 6 - 5:19:03
Chapter 7 - 5:25:03
Chapter 8 - 5:41:06
Chapter 9 - 6:05:44
Chapter 10 - 7:32:16

Part III
Chapter 1 - 7:46:40
Chapter 2 - 8:16:29
Chapter 3 - 9:03:19
Chapter 4 - 9:34:17
Chapter 5 - 9:52:39
Chpater 6 - 10:02:44

Appendix - 10:27:08

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George Orwell Animal Farm Audio book - Power Corrupts political government - Audio Book Playlist https://www.bitchute.com/playlist/O5xcSONeinzB/
Old Major, a prize-winning boar, gathers the animals of the Manor Farm for a meeting in the big barn. He tells them of a dream he has had in which all animals live together with no human beings to oppress or control them. He tells the animals that they must work toward such a paradise and teaches them a song called “Beasts of England,” in which his dream vision is lyrically described. The animals greet Major’s vision with great enthusiasm. When he dies only three nights after the meeting, three younger pigs—Snowball, Napoleon, and Squealer—formulate his main principles into a philosophy called Animalism. Late one night, the animals manage to defeat the farmer Mr. Jones in a battle, running him off the land. They rename the property Animal Farm and dedicate themselves to achieving Major’s dream. The cart-horse Boxer devotes himself to the cause with particular zeal, committing his great strength to the prosperity of the farm and adopting as a personal maxim the affirmation “I will work harder.”

At first, Animal Farm prospers. Snowball works at teaching the animals to read, and Napoleon takes a group of young puppies to educate them in the principles of Animalism. When Mr. Jones reappears to take back his farm, the animals defeat him again, in what comes to be known as the Battle of the Cowshed, and take the farmer’s abandoned gun as a token of their victory. As time passes, however, Napoleon and Snowball increasingly quibble over the future of the farm, and they begin to struggle with each other for power and influence among the other animals. Snowball concocts a scheme to build an electricity-generating windmill, but Napoleon solidly opposes the plan. At the meeting to vote on whether to take up the project, Snowball gives a passionate speech. Although Napoleon gives only a brief retort, he then makes a strange noise, and nine attack dogs—the puppies that Napoleon had confiscated in order to “educate”—burst into the barn and chase Snowball from the farm. Napoleon assumes leadership of Animal Farm and declares that there will be no more meetings. From that point on, he asserts, the pigs alone will make all of the decisions—for the good of every animal.

Audio Book Playlist https://www.bitchute.com/playlist/O5xcSONeinzB/ Aldous Huxley Brave New World - Community Identity Stability - dystopian totalitarian communist future - the novel anticipates developments in reproductive technology, sleep-learning, psychological manipulation, and classical conditioning that are combined to make a profound change in society

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War of the Spheres (1/2) - Aliens Infiltrate and Sabotage - Science Fiction - Audio book Playlist https://www.bitchute.com/playlist/O5xcSONeinzB/

When humanity reaches for the stars, our probes are destroyed. They crash into an incredibly advanced piece of technology: a massive force-field. Unknown beings have placed a barrier around our star and planets, enclosing us within. We’re locked inside a Great Sphere. Was this invisible obstacle built to imprison us—or to protect us? No one knows the truth, but it soon becomes clear the barrier has leaks. Aliens infiltrate and try to sabotage our efforts to escape our cage. A warship crewed by military people and scientists beta-test an engine designed to pass through the barrier. Chief Gray, a security officer from Control, is assigned to help. His mission is critical: Earth must escape her bonds at all costs, even if it means war with our hostile neighbors. War of the Spheres is a new novel by James Millington and B. V. Larson, a bestselling SF author with over three million copies sold.

War of the Spheres (2/2) - Aliens Infiltrate and Sabotage - Science Fiction - Audio book Playlist https://www.bitchute.com/playlist/O5xcSONeinzB/

When humanity reaches for the stars, our probes are destroyed. They crash into an incredibly advanced piece of technology: a massive force-field. Unknown beings have placed a barrier around our star and planets, enclosing us within. We’re locked inside a Great Sphere. Was this invisible obstacle built to imprison us—or to protect us? No one knows the truth, but it soon becomes clear the barrier has leaks. Aliens infiltrate and try to sabotage our efforts to escape our cage. A warship crewed by military people and scientists beta-test an engine designed to pass through the barrier. Chief Gray, a security officer from Control, is assigned to help. His mission is critical: Earth must escape her bonds at all costs, even if it means war with our hostile neighbors. War of the Spheres is a new novel by James Millington and B. V. Larson, a bestselling SF author with over three million copies sold.

Audio Book Playlist https://www.bitchute.com/playlist/O5xcSONeinzB/ Constitution is the first book in the Legacy Fleet Trilogy by Nick Webb. It was published on June 28, 2015. The year is 2650 75 years ago, an alien fleet attacked Earth. Without warning. Without mercy. We were not prepared. Hundreds of millions perished. Dozens of cities burned. We nearly lost everything. Then, the aliens abruptly left. We rebuilt. We armed ourselves. We swore: never again. But the aliens never came back. Until now. With overwhelming force the aliens have returned, striking deep into our territory, sending Earth into a panic. Our new technology is useless. Our new ships burn like straw. All our careful preparations are wasted. Now, only one man, one crew, and the oldest starship in the fleet stand between the Earth and certain destruction:

Audio Book Playlist https://www.bitchute.com/playlist/O5xcSONeinzB/ - Warrior book two of the legacy fleet trilogy is the second book in the Legacy Fleet trilogy by Nick Webb. It was published on November 16, 2015. We repelled the Swarm, for now. But they won’t stop: they’re inhuman. They have no inhibitions. No conscience. Warrior starts with a bang, as Granger swoops in to the New Dublin system to save it from a Swarm attack. He is a legend at this point, having not only saved Earth, but several other worlds from Swarm invasions. Near the end of the skirmish, a new alien race shows up—the Dolmasi. They claim to be friends of the Swarm, and warn Granger not to pursue the fleeing Swarm ships.

On Earth, both Vice President Isaacson and President Avery survive separate assassination attempts, and Isaacson, humbled by his guilt that he’s caused the destruction, nevertheless starts to suspect a conspiracy on Avery’s part, and begins to investigate her anti-matter program behind her back.

Avery narrowly avoids another assassination attempt in space that kills her body double and destroys her ship’s military escort frigate. Besieged constantly by the withering Swarm offensive as well as the unknown political enemies in the shadows, she gives the go-ahead to Granger to strike back into what they perceive is Swarm territory, though they can’t seem to find any actual Swarm planets, much less their homeworld.

Granger leads the assembled strike force deep into Swarm territory, crossing Russian Confederation space, and stumble upon a planet with a few orbiting Swarm carriers. After a short battle, the Dolmasi intervene again, destroying several ships in Granger’s fleet. Granger agrees to a negotiation meeting with Vishgane Kharsa. When they meet, they shake hands, and Granger momentarily blacks out and relives the vivid dream he’s been having about laying on a medical bed and staring out the window at a strange planet.

Proctor figures out that there is a meta-space link between all individuals controlled by the Swarm, and later discovers the existence of an actual Swarm virus that infects people. They detect this meta-space link coming from Vishgane Kharsa, and also a second signal coming either from Doc Wyatt, Colonel Hanrahan, or Granger himself.

They stumble upon another planet with several Russian ships around it. They withdraw under Russian threats, and their probes find another world with possible Swarm activity around it. When the images come back, Granger realizes it’s the image of the planet from his dreams, and remembers Kharsa—and the Swarm—feeling longing and nostalgia for the planet when he was temporarily connected to the alien during the handshake, as if it’s the Swarm homeworld.

Victory Audio Book - Third In The Legacy Fleet Trilogy by Nick Webb - scifi science fiction galactic space travel alien war - The world of Indira is under attack, and Granger, still smarting from being used by Vishgane Kharsa, arrives with his fleet too late—the planet is almost completely destroyed. To make matters worse, the Swarm has unleashed another weapon—a supermassive dreadnought, a hundred kilometers long, that is basically a planet killer.

Granger manages to destroy an entire super-dreadnought and has his sights on another when the dreadnought initiates contact, revealing that the massive ships are part of yet another alien race under Swarm control, the Skiohra. Vice Imperator Scythia Krull, the leader of the vessel, claims the Skiohra are no longer fighting for the Swarm, and asks to meet a few days later.

Granger, President Avery, and Admiral Zingano are all skeptical. It sounded too convenient. The war is going very badly. So Avery decides that after the parlay, General Norton would lead a massive strike force to board the Skiohra super-dreadnought, seize it, and point it at the Swarm fleets.

At the meeting, Granger learns that the Skiohra are essentially a race of mothers, each female carrying tens of thousands of sentient embryos, each a fully developed person, connected to the mother through something resembling the Swarm’s meta-space link. Only a select few are born to the exterior life—the rest live inside the mothers for centuries. Scythia Krull claims that she and her interior children worked on the Russian Singularity production station, outfitting the Swarm carriers with the dreaded weapons.

She reveals much of the Swarm plan to Granger, who believes her, and tries to prevent the impending invasion.

General Norton doesn’t listen to Granger, as he believes the Captain to be under Swarm influence. The invasion proceeds, hundreds of boarding ships and cruisers show up, as well as dozens of Swarm carriers, which confirms Norton’s suspicions.

The battle is grueling—half of the fleet is destroyed. Admiral Zingano is killed, and the Warrior is destroyed. Norton even brings the half-repaired Constitution with him and hurls it at the super-dreadnought in a vain attempt to subdue it. The operation is a complete disaster, and Granger—having escaped with his crew to Zingano’s ship ISS Victory, convinces Krull to trust him. The Victory and the Dreadnought escape, making their way to the Russian Production facility where they will attempt to stop the Swarm plan.

Krull claims the Swarm plan is to hurl all the debris that has been scooped up by the singularities deployed against human worlds at Earth, destroying and subduing it permanently. The singularities come in pairs, and what goes in one side comes out the other, but the timing can be controlled. The Swarm has calibrated all the singularities such that everything that goes in one end will come out the other roughly this moment—right before Granger arrives on the Victory. The debris has all conglomerated in a huge ball the size of a small moon, and the Swarm’s plan is to then transport it all through one last singularity and aim it at Earth.

Meanwhile, Isaacson has been sent by Avery on a mission to the Russian Production facility, where he is to meet with President Malakhov, ostensibly for secret peace talks.

Volodin, though, is trying to convince him that he should kill Malakhov and Avery both,so that Volodin can take over the Russian Confederation and Isaacson the United Earth government. Once there, Malakhov tries to convince him that they are on the same side an reveals his decade-long plan: use all the debris sucked up by the singularities and hurl it down to the planet below the Production Facility—what Malakhov claims is the Swarm homeworld.