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When Humanity is contacted by an alien race, promising great advances to human society, humanity is dropped into the deep end of interstellar politics, intrigue, and combat. This work is complete (unless I decide to do a successor), but trickle-fed through here for the sake of why not. Comments are greatly appreciated, and I make an effort to respond to all of them.

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