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Thrive Nozomu Appeal
- Narrated by: Virtual Voice
- Length: 11 hrs and 8 mins
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An envoy from Earth.
And a relic from Earth’s AI Wars…
Buffeted by advice, Ben refuses to fire on Moby Prick, as they dub the new colony ship. He won’t surrender his home world Mahina, either. There must be another way!
Ben has time. Surely the Prick can’t reach Mahina for a decade?
Two things are clear. They need more ships, and trained crew to fly them. Sass founds the new Colony Corps Academy, assisted by Ben’s space-resistant daughter Frazzie.
Can Sass lure her namesake to the stars?
As for the invasion, Ben has one slim hope. That between the two remaining colonies, one might welcome new settlers. The envoy Melkor says the newcomers will hail from Asia.
Can they persuade the xenophobic world Nozomu to welcome Earth’s new settlers, and deflect them from Mahina?
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