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The Company Wars Series by C.J. Meanwhile, within Union, two political factions vie to determine its future.
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The conflict comes to a head at Pell in late 2352 and early 2353, as described in the novel Mazian refuses to accept the peace, and the Fleet continues to fight on, this time in the service of his ambition. Union resents the treaty restrictions, while the Alliance fears being overwhelmed by Union's much larger population.
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Planet dwellers (ordinary residents of Earth and Cyteen) seem to have many of the same attitudes and concerns as 21st century people in developed countries.
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Unreliable citations may be challenged or deleted. Space station residents (stationers) tend toward extreme caution towards both their physical as well as social and economic environments, since an unplanned change in any of them could be fatal to the entire station population. Unbeknownst to either, brilliant scientist and political leader Ariane Emory has her own agenda.
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When Signy Mallory, one of his most senior captains, learns of his plans to seize control of Earth itself, she and her ship, With Earth turned against the "Mazianni", Union sees a chance to finally rid itself of its bitter enemy.
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The stations closest to Earth, disturbed by the azi and other developments on the Union side, remain loyal to Earth; several of these are destroyed by Union action. With sporadic, inadequate support from Earth, the Fleet has no choice but to forcibly requisition equipment and personnel from the increasingly alienated merchanters.
For example, a great deal of the conflict in Starship crew (spacers) have an extremely insular world-view engendered by the time-dilation effects of jump; this attitude was even more extreme before the jump drive was developed, when travel between stars took years.
Because Union does not dare weaken its forces at this crucial juncture to guard its rear against the newborn state, the Alliance is able to broker a favorable peace treaty, with Pell Station as its de facto home base. When rent is not paid on a storage locker for three months in California, the …
The space-dwelling populations find it strange that planet-dwellers fight over things like energy sources and territory (which are plentiful in space) but act in a cavalier and wasteful manner toward their physical environment (which must be carefully tended in space). The majority view in Union is that azi are necessary to preserve the technological and industrial base of their many space settlements, while a minority wants to abolish the practice and cease azi production.
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Without new ships to replace its combat losses, the Fleet gradually begins to lose a Caught in the middle are the merchanter families and Pell Station, the primary transit point between Earth and Union space. Chad appears as Darrell Sheet's sidekick in several episodes. With Ian Somerhalder, Adrian Holmes, Jacky Lai, Kyle Breitkopf. He is willing to try out some of Darrell's more dangerous storage locker finds with a childlike enthusiasm.
Her Alliance–Union universe features numerous sentient alien species, including the following:
Merchanter women will often have unprotected sex while in port in order to become pregnant and preserve genetic diversity in their crew-families.