02690cam a2200457 i 4500 551459350 TxAuBib 20160614120000.0 010323s2001||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2001025926 9780671318277 0671318276 (OCoLC)46671107 DLC eng DLC IG# CUY BAKER BTCTA SXC YDXCP OCLCF OCLCQ OCLCO NUI OCLCO KRX TxAuBib rda Norton, Andre. Star soldiers : Star guard / Star rangers : Central Control #1-#2 / Andre Norton. Star guard / Star rangers. hardcover. Riverdale, N.Y. : Baen Books, 2001. 434 pages ; 25 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier Central Control ; ; 1, 2 Novel. Cover art by Stephen Hickman. Star guard -- Star rangers. The first starships from Earth have burst out into the universe... only to run straight alien federation known as Central Control. Only as interstellar mercenaries can humans go to the stars; the aliens who already dominate the galaxy allow no other recourse. But when Swordsman Third Class Kana Karr and his comrades-in-arms are betrayed and abandoned on a hostile world by their alien masters, the warriors from Earth begin a desperate but glorious march across a planet whose every sword is against them. Their actions may doom humanity's future... or lead the way to an empire of their own! Four thousand years later, galactic civilization is collapsing, and the underfunded crew of an exploration starship is forced to set down on an uncharted planet: a mysterious, abandoned world that is achingly beautiful -- and hauntingly familiar. Ranger Sergeant Kartr, telepath and stellar Patrolman, searches with his crewmates for the source of a beacon which may mean escape for them all. What he finds is far stranger: the first clue to what may become the greatest revelation in galactic history! (from fantastic fiction.) 20160614. Life on other planets Fiction. Space flight Fiction. Interstellar travel Fiction. Extraterrestrial beings Fiction. Fiction. Science fiction. Space colonies Fiction. Space battles Fiction. Hickman, Stephen, 1949-, illustrator. Central Control ; ; 1, 2. https://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/description/simon031/2001025926.html Publisher description