Tripartite chase.

Humanity has split into three factions, with three differing philosophies of existence. This first novel in this trilogy is an obvious and not that great set-up for the rest of the series as each particular group is introduced via a set-up character, and things only get a bit more interesting towards the end, with the discovery of the necessity of going to find otu what the Demons are up to.

The end of the book is not well placed and a bit annoying.

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We are introduced to three stellar empires with three novellas so to speak. We have the "good" empire, the "evil" empire, and the secular empire. Good, religous empire. Evil, dog eat dog empire. Secular, libertine empire. Each has its own group of humans.

The author has fun with these types of empires comparing and contrasting. How these very different empires solve problems and function is interesting.

This is the first of a series. This book does not really put the overall series story forward, but just introduces us to the protagonists.

One common thing of these cultures, is the knowledge of a race of beings that have not been known, but remembered, for eons. Demons!

A team from each empire race in answer to a distress beacon. Two Demons have been discovered at Rainbow Bridge. ( )

This was a good fun book but it is obviously part of a series. The book just stops. I haven't yet run across the other books in the series so I can't tell if the good start he had in this, was put to good use. The quick overview of the book is sometime in the future humanity has spread out into the Galaxy and found 3 competing civilizations fighting over it, each one an extreme to the others and yet they are all similar. Humanity had spread out into all three territories and as such was split along the lines designated by these "Superior" civilizations. The book follows a human from each one and shows the differences then goes into the story that brings the charactors together. ( )