The Vargut Emnas: Sojourn Trilogy: Book 2 — Robert P. Fitton

Sard, leader of the Creod military, seeks revenge on the human ancestral Ta-Buhn-Shar. Tom Loftus and Zach are separated upon arrival from the intergalactic passageway. Sard engages in a massive fleet assault on his home planet as Loftus learns the ways of Ta-Buhn-Shar in an underground prison. He fights his way to freedom and to his destiny. Across the galaxy Sard is crowned Vargut Emnas, undisputed leader of the Creod Realm of Planets.