Book One of the Lorem Chronicles. In a future time, when man has left the Mother World and ventured out into the stars, civil war rages between two factions: the Federation of Interplanetary Security, the current government in power under the direction of President Robert Nero; and the Alliance of Free Worlds, the rebel group determined to overthrow them. It is during this tumultuous time that two teenagers are brought from their home world - one by force of a system-wide draft, the other by choice - and are separated by a series of events that will change their lives forever. They alone will determine their fates as each struggles to survive in their group, one in the Federation army, the other among Alliance ranks. Caught in the crossfire of a war between worlds, they have to choose whether they will fight for their side or stay true to their friendship.
4 parts