Galactic Crisis

The galaxy has a plan.

A mythology professor was not part of it.

Clement Reeber, a mythology professor, built his name debunking the Vanguards-impossibly powerful sentient starships no serious scholar believes in. Then Federation Security delivers him aboard one, a vessel with walls of liquid metal and a crew that glows from within, and a lifetime of certainty collapses in a single moment.

Worse, he carries two ancient Mhyrnian artifacts half the galaxy will kill for-and at the galaxy's heart...