Mission to Helios is a science fiction novel that takes place in the year 1054 after the founding of the Holy Galactic Empire. The Empire, with its capital on Earth, claims a loose sovereignty over all human settlements. Human colonies on planets, moons and habitats have home rule, but the Empire insists that taxes be paid and there be no wars.
As the novel opens, a war is brewing between two colonies in the Helios double star system of red dwarf suns located in the Hyades Star Cluster, 140 light years from Earth,. One is Platonopolis, a utopia based on ideas of Plato of a State ruled by a Philosopher-King and Guardians. A second is a religious state, the Realm of the Messiahs. A third colony in the system is the New Tang Dynasty, based on a re-creation of a great historical era of its Chinese founders. There is also present an alien spaceship docked for over a year at a Lagrangian point in the Helios double star system, silently observing humans.
A spaceship from the Holy Galactic Empire, the Splendor of Peace, and its crew of a married six-group of three men and three women are tasked with traveling through Hyperspace to the Helios system to prevent the war.
What they learn and encounter there challenges their strengths and weaknesses and calls upon their training and understanding of human life and the human condition. Preventing war among humans is not so easy.
Genre: Science Fiction
As the novel opens, a war is brewing between two colonies in the Helios double star system of red dwarf suns located in the Hyades Star Cluster, 140 light years from Earth,. One is Platonopolis, a utopia based on ideas of Plato of a State ruled by a Philosopher-King and Guardians. A second is a religious state, the Realm of the Messiahs. A third colony in the system is the New Tang Dynasty, based on a re-creation of a great historical era of its Chinese founders. There is also present an alien spaceship docked for over a year at a Lagrangian point in the Helios double star system, silently observing humans.
A spaceship from the Holy Galactic Empire, the Splendor of Peace, and its crew of a married six-group of three men and three women are tasked with traveling through Hyperspace to the Helios system to prevent the war.
What they learn and encounter there challenges their strengths and weaknesses and calls upon their training and understanding of human life and the human condition. Preventing war among humans is not so easy.
Genre: Science Fiction
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