Kantovan Vault



Book 3 in The Spiral Wars Series, by Joel Shepherd
 * Formats: paperback, digital e-book, audiobook
 * Audiobook narrated by John Lee
 * See Table of Contents

Synopsis
The UFS Phoenix is on a mission to find a lost data-core that may contain the secret to defeating the alo-deepynine alliance. But the means to find the data-core is hidden deep in tavalai space, in a highest-security vault where the tavalai's manipulative State Department keep all their most treacherous secrets. To recover it, Phoenix must pull off the most daring heist the Spiral has ever seen. But Phoenix will need help -- in the form of a rebellious faction of the tavalai Fleet; a fanatical parren mystic who lusts mostly for power; a cynical old tavalai marine who's spent much of his life fighting humans; and a super-intelligent AI queen who will sacrifice anything to rescue her race from extinction. None of them can be trusted, and neither Captain Erik Debogande nor Major Trace Thakur are experienced in this kind of work. But each must gather their ingenuity and courage, and learn as they go, as the scale of the threat confronting humanity looms larger, and the clock is ticking... (from Goodreads.com)

Settings

 * The book begins in Tavalai territory, on a mountainous alpine planet, Stoya iii, in Stoya System. Erik Debogande meets Aristan, an ambitious Parren, head of the Domesh Denomination of House Harmony, at Stoya Temple.




 * The setting then moves to Kantovan System, to the Kantovan Vault and the free city of Gamesh on planet Konik

Excerpt
“Strange goings on in Kantovan System, Lisbeth Debogande. Most terribly and alarmingly strange. My guests, the tavalai foreign affairs people, were not very forthcoming, but my own sources indicated that there was trouble on the hothouse moon of Kamala. Where the great Vault of Secrets is reputed to be located.

“Who could dare to raid such a facility, under the eyes of all those heavily-armed tavalai?” Tobenrah’s eyes narrowed at her. “I heard stories of technological witchcraft on the Tsubarata itself...” (ch. 33)



The Books

 * 1) Renegade, The Spiral Wars, book 1
 * 2) Drysine Legacy, The Spiral Wars, book 2
 * 3) Kantovan Vault, The Spiral Wars, book 3
 * 4) Defiance, The Spiral Wars, book 4
 * 5) Croma Venture, The Spiral Wars, book 5
 * 6) Rando Splicer, The Spiral Wars, book 6
 * 7) Qalea Drop, The Spiral Wars, book 7
 * 8) more to come