Distant Kingdoms: The Drodenar Project Folly of the Gods: 3

Distant Kingdoms: The Drodenar Project Folly of the Gods begins in the early centuries of the Third Millennium AD in a Galactic Earth Empire whose citizens enjoy engineered immortality and the technology to alter and create life in many forms with the aid of their sentient AI. A university research project locates a planet cast into an ice age by the near passing of a rogue world upon which exists a threatened ecosystem on the verge of collapse. While the team works to correct the planets tilt and orbit and restore the ecology they discover a species which they develop and imbue with sentience. Over the next millennia Mankind gives its creation an Early Bronze Age level of knowledge and tech and guidance that results in a Golden Age but when a war of independence breaks out across the empire the research team is forced to leave Drodenar and the Androgenari to their own devices. After a thousand years of independent development on Drodenar including wars and social breakdown Humanity returns to pick up where they left off only to find a very different planet than the one they left. Drodenar has once again been influenced by the rogue worlds 1000-year orbit through the system and once again has fallen into a Time of Ice. Meet the team of researchers and experience the epic story of the Andros struggle to achieve ultimate stability and independence in the first of my three-book series.