ORBUS

This is a follow-up to The Voyage of the Sable Keech tracing the journeyof an Old Captain, Orbus - a sadist in charge of a crew of masochists - toa planetary wasteland called The Graveyard' lying between the Polity andthe Prador Kingdom. An ancient war drone by the name of Sniper has stowedaway aboard his spaceship, and the purpose of the journey is not entirelywhat the captain expected. Also heading in the same direction is the Pradorking and the Prador Vrell. Vrell, having been mutated by the Spatterjayvirus into something powerful and dangerous, has seized control of a Pradordreadnought, killing much of its crew, and is intent on heading back to thePrador Third Kingdom to exact vengeance on the King of the Prador, whotried to have him killed. All three ships are heading towards a climaticconfrontation to The Graveyard, where underlying truths about the virus arerevealed and an ancient menace to civilization reappears...