Fourteen years after the discovery of the planet Anahita deep inside the Ursa Minor dwarf elliptical galaxy, humans have colonized the new world, and built a second starship to establish a stronger presence and facilitate further exploration and transportation between galaxies. Anne Webber, daughter of the famous Mercury designer, takes the engineering seat on Excalibur’s maiden voyage, and drives straight into unexpected horror. The enigmatic and quiet Alien race known as the Makhar have built a new battleship of their own, under the auspices of NASA’s long lost astronaut Lieutenant Jane Hobbs. The human colonists on Anahita, and the crew of the two starships Mercury and Excalibur are thrown into a dramatic conflict that threatens the future of the deep space program, the security of Anahita, and potentially all of mankind. The second novel in Samuel Blondahl’s Mercury series, War is a unique and gripping story that challenges the reader to see humanity from the outside, and consider the alien perspective.