Politics Of Empire is four novels, with Graciela Juarez (‘Grace’) as main character. It is not necessary to read the Rediscovery series to understand what’s going on. It is written largely in parallel with Preparations for War, but where the latter series is written grunt-level from the viewpoint of someone in the frontline, Politics of Empire is behind the lines, with some of the characters being powerful people within the Empire.
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The series opens with The Invention of Motherhood. Grace is leaving the Imperial military after a twenty year enlistment, and she and her husband have decided it’s time to start a family. Because Grace grew up on pre-contact Earth, rather than use artificial gestation, she think’s it’s necessary to carry the baby herself in order to be able to look her sisters in the eye and call herself a mother. She discovers that carrying her child makes a positive difference in childhood development, but she’s endangered by the fact that another powerful family has already done the same thing – and they may not want the benefits to become public knowledge.
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Grace and her family have been living on a piloting module while she works as the Imperial version of a space trucker, moving massive cargo vessels between systems of the Empire of Humanity, protected by being one of many billions of Vector pilots. But her husband has obtained one of the few berths in the military that allows him to live off base, so it’s time to move back into the Scimtar Family Residence. Almost as soon as she arrives, the Scimtars are embroiled in a House War with the ancient and powerful Cor family, and the fallout changes the balance of power among the elite families of the Empire. Her husband’s family finds her a job as an Investigator, determining the facts of both criminal and civil cases to aid the Primus magistrates. But since she’s a stronger Guardian than most investigators, she begins being tasked with internal security investigations.
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The Empire has caught the fractal demons marshaling troops for the long-awaited start of the war between Empire and fractal demon. As the two massive realms fall into open conflict, the fractal demons redouble their efforts to recruit traitors from the humans. Then Grace’s husband Asto goes missing in one of the Empire’s early counter-assaults, and Grace somewhat irresponsibly uses the opportunity to slip her children out of the protection of the family Residence so they can meet her Earth family – only to find herself and family caught in the jaws of the fractal demon assault on Earth.
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The war between Empire and fractal demons grinds on. It’s been thirteen years, and the Empire believes it holds the upper hand, but it’s hard to be certain with how fast the demons reproduce. Grace is still an Investigator, but these days, she works directly for Scimtar, her grandfather-in-law and one of the most powerful Imperial Viceroys. Just as the eldest child of her family with Asto achieves adulthood, she’s notified that her child by a long-dead lover, whom she put up for adoption at birth, has lost his adulthood and she’s the only candidate to keep him from permanent exile.
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