Misplaced Threats

<p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(23 43 77 1)>Sixty years ago seventeen human colonies were cut off from Earth and left to survive on their own with minimal resources. Corporations and genetically engineered elites took control. They created a new kind of government authoritarian monopolistic an oligarchy. But now that system is falling apart. The corporations are approaching war the elite families are losing control and the people are caught in the middle.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(23 43 77 1)>Just when things couldn't get worse an alien race appears. They attack - or do they?</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(23 43 77 1)>Some everyday people - a restaurant entrepreneur a professor an asteroid miner a brilliant introverted kid a philosopher victims and heroes and volunteers all - are forced to choose. Will they conform to the oppressive government and oppose the aliens or oppose the developing fascism only to risk annihilation by the aliens?</span></p><p></p><p><strong style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(23 43 77 1)>Fight for freedom or for survival?</strong></p><p></p>