The Lost Colonial War — Robert Leader

THE LOST COLONIAL WAR BOOK ONE OF EXTINCTION'S EDGE Through the horrors of the Vietnam War the time travelers struggle to understand the mindless aggression of the human race. They must decide whether the insane earth species should be allowed to live or to die. The Marregh/Riken are an aquatic race of amoebic time travelers. Their mother ship is hidden behind the furthest ice planet of the solar system, while an observation vessel orbits unseen high above the only partially inviting world of deep blue oceans. The oceans are too saline to colonize, but even worse they are divided by dry continents where insane land creatures wage an incomprehensible war. The first horrified instinct of the Marregh/Riken is to move on, to explore elsewhere in the galaxies, but then they discover an appalling fact. This insane human species stands on the edge of space exploration, already they have begun to explore their own solar system, and eventually they could pose a direct threat to the peaceful races of other star systems. So the Marregh/Riken begin a systematic study, to try and understand the motives and psychology of these alien creatures, by attaching themselves mentally to some of the key players in the long nightmare which the Earth beings have called the Vietnam War. The Marregh/Riken must decide whether the human race is fit to survive, or whether they should be destroyed before they can become too powerful and export their blind hatreds out into the galaxies. In the first book of this epic six book series the first hosts chosen are the French Paratroop Lieutenant Rene Chauvel, and the orphan child who will eventually be called Phat Sang. Through their eyes the Marregh/Riken follow the events of the lost colonial war.