Blue Guardian — S.J. Madill

It's been forty years since the end of the war. Despite struggling with millions of refugees, humanity looks to the future. Their uneasy allies -- the Palani -- look to the past, and remember the empire they once ruled.New Fraser is a human colony deep in Palani space. Once a thriving Palani world, now an empty ruin given to the humans to house their refugees. It is far from human space, filled with people wary of their alien hosts, looking for a new life.Zura Varta was the Mahasa -- the supreme commander -- of the Palani fleet. Throughout her eight-hundred-year career, she fought countless battles, and gained a reputation for ruthlessness. But now the war is over, and the old warrior finds it difficult to cope with a peaceful galaxy that no longer needs her.Living in the debris of the past, the humans and the Palani struggle to create their futures amid the barren lawlessness of the frontier. And on New Fraser, the colonists are about to meet their new governor...