Paperback, 448 pages
English language
Published March 4, 2008 by Orb Books.
A Ship of the Law travels the infinite enormity of space, carrying 82 young people: fighters, strategists, scientists; the Children. They work with sophisticated non-human technologies that need new thinking to comprehend them. They are cut off forever from the people they left behind. Denied information, they live within a complex system that is both obedient and beyond their control. They are frightened. And they are making war against entities whose technologies are so advanced, so vast, as to dwarf them. Against something whose psychology is ultimately, unknowably alien.
Humans travel in a spacecraft supplied by aliensvin order to destroy the planet of the other aliens who destroyed the Earth, but they find the planets in the system are populated by peaceful civilisations who are concerned about the mission that the humans are on. A good sequel, although in a different style.
