They name it Safehold.īecause signs of technology led the Gbaba to past emergency colonies, the initial mission on Safehold was to restrict all industrialization. A terraforming team led by Pei Shan-Wei arrives first on a new world ahead of 8 million colonists. After the Gbaba attack the Solar System, a final colony fleet escapes after tricking the Gbaba into believing it had been destroyed. Last-ditch colonies are started on faraway worlds to save the species, but the Gbaba find them all and wipe them out. A hopeless defense delays the end for several decades. One by one, each colony world is annihilated.
A Terran fleet takes several enemy systems but is quickly overwhelmed when the vast Gbaba main force arrives.
The Federation Navy is well prepared for battle, but it is outnumbered and outgunned. The inevitable confrontation arrives 10 years later. In the 24th century, the Terran Federation-Earth and its colonies-discovers the ruins of a nearby alien civilization, the victim of an enemy they name the Gbaba. The threat of the Gbaba is barely mentioned in the books so far the main issue is the divergence of the official church from its original aims versus the outlying areas which deny the leadership of the corrupt vicars.Įvery book after the first has a name taken from a hymn. This status is enforced by a religious belief system discouraging scientific curiosity and forbidding any higher technological innovation on penalty of death. The humans on Safehold avoid detection by reverting to a pre-electrical, pre-industrial technology base.
The series is mostly set around the 31st century, on a distant world dubbed "Safehold" where a group of humans are in hiding from the Gbaba, an alien enemy responsible for the end of all other human civilization. Safehold is a science fiction book series by David Weber, currently consisting of ten titles, the latest released in January 2019.
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