The New Polovians

(Starship Lucy Book 3)

by T. M. Julien

$4.99

An empire died billions of years ago. Now the universe has chosen who will bring it back. For five centuries, not a single Polovian child had been born. Their civilization was dying, their worlds falling silent, and their people facing extinction. So, in their final days, the Polovians entrusted their entire legacy to a single sentient starship and sent her into the void with one mission: Find someone worthy to inherit us. Billions of years later, that ship finds a tiny object drifting through space—a golden disc launched from Earth aboard Voyager. And for the first time in eons, she feels hope. Now the Starship Lucy has discovered the ruins of the ancient Polovian Empire—and the shipyards that once built its legendary fleet. But the Lucy and her crew aren't alone. Raiders have occupied the ancient Polovian capital of Britari, enslaving more than a million beings and stripping the dead civilization for anything they can sell. Bryan Landry has faced alien monsters, interstellar wars, and the destruction of entire worlds. But this time, the mission is different. He isn't here to conquer. He's here to liberate. As Bryan and his crew take the fight to the raiders, they discover that the people of the surrounding worlds have never forgotten the Polovians. Ancient legends speak of their return—and when twelve thousand luminous Angelicara descend from the stars to fight beside Bryan, those legends suddenly seem to be coming true. To the freed slaves, Bryan isn't merely a captain. He's a god. Bryan wants none of it. But as an ancient starship is reborn, new vessels emerge from forgotten shipyards, and millions choose to become Polovian, he realizes that restoring an empire is about more than reclaiming its technology. It's about deciding what that empire will become. With the Lucy restored, a growing fleet at his command, and a new capital rising on Britari, Bryan faces his greatest challenge yet: Can he build a civilization without becoming the tyrant its people believe him to be? The Polovians are no longer extinct. They have returned. And they're going back to the stars.

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