Dasein Quest — Ezra E. Manes

Commander Alandi Sepeda is taken captive upon arriving on Earth. Her diplomatic mission to negotiate a trade, exploration and colonization alliance among neighboring sentient species collapses -- Earth's leaders want the Zilan's advanced, warp drive spaceship.Alandi is critically wounded during her escape, but finds an unlikely ally in Kern Neddort, leader of a secretive Collective on Earth. Kern's elite group reveals an approaching cosmic ghost cloud that threatens the survival of all sentient species as it searches for the ultimate factual reality of existence within the universe -- a Dasein Quest.Alandi's visionary capability guides her, Kern, and the AI entity Dawn on their own quest for knowledge, with their survival at stake as they search for a way to counter the formidable ghost cloud.Then remarkable revelations add a stunning dimension to their dangerous mission.