Xeelee: Endurance (Stephen Baxter) читать бесплатно онлайн полную версию книги (ч. 9)

As Mara had predicted, the Qax were eventually forced to loosen their grip. And a traumatised humanity launched a new thrust to the stars.

The Third Expansion of mankind was the most vigorous yet, and, under a unified, highly ideological government called the Interim Coalition of Governance, the most purposeful. As the Expansion unfolded, humanity once more encountered alien kinds, and re-engaged in wider Galactic history – and this time as conquerors.

It was only a little more than ninety years after the liberation from the Qax that another first contact, of devastating significance, was made.

The wars with the Silver Ghosts would span more than two thousand years.