The Ancillary (Tales of a Dying Star Book 2)

His helmet came off and rolled away. He laid there with his cheek against the metal, sucking in the cool air.

In a dangerously-close orbit around its star floats the Ancillary, a hollowed-out asteroid that harvests energy from the solar ring before relaying it deeper into the Sarian system. It fulfills the entirety of the Melisao Empire's energy needs--a masterful feat of engineering, once.

Now, with the star it orbits dying and the departure of the Exodus Fleet near, the Ancillary's usefulness has come to an end. And so labors Javin, an aging engineer who must dismantle the structure he's spent his entire life maintaining.

But there are those who would take advantage of the Empire's absence. Do they simply want the Ancillary and its precious solar panels, or are their motives more sinister?

OTHER BOOKS BY DAVID KRISTOPH

Tales of a Dying Star:

• Siege of Praetar


• The Ancillary


• Sword of Blue


• Drowned by Fire


• Born of Sand

Ultimate Ending

• Treasures of the Forgotten City


• The House on Hollow Hill


• The Ship at the Edge of Time


• Enigma at the Greensboro Zoo


• The Secret of the Aurora Hotel


• The Strange Physics of the Heidelberg Laboratory