In this first of seven volumes we discover a world rich with human booming thanks to the highly developed commercial empire Terran Hanseatic League, a more advanced civilization Ildiriane but much less dynamic that gave humans the technology to travel extensively faster, and next minor groups. This little world is living relatively well despite the personalized human aggression by its president until a miserable experience triggers an event that will quickly endanger this fragile balance.
In addition to this framework, classic for the opening of such a saga, I found here very dynamic feather Kevin J. Anderson. Very short chapters all focused on a character, a cut very close to the TV series, mean that everything goes without dead time, which is often the weak point of these tomes presentation. So we quickly sucked up kick in the anthill of late that promises an eventful away that I will continue with pleasure.