Raiders From The Rings (Prologue Books)
€œWe have watched your plants for millennia.€Â
The creature that spoke was barely three feet tall, with wrinkled gray skin and monstrous eyes . . .
€œYours is a war of children. Only children would slaughter each other out of ignorance and fear. Only children would fail again and again to learn the lessons of their foolishness.€Â
It was true. The underground people of Earth were united in terror and desperation against what they considered a frightful threat from the skies. They had sent a mighty armada into space, rushing in lethal orbit toward Mars. The Spacers - still really Earthmen themselves - were poised for the counter-blow. The great fleet at Asteroid Central had sufficient warheads to reduce earth to a cinder.
€œBut we also know the greatness of your spirit, the precious spark which we cannont allow you to extinguish.€Â
Now Ben Trefon understood that in the Black Belt of Power bequeathed to him by his father rested the final hope of the human race!