The galaxy is becoming increasingly hostile towards humanity. Now, survival or extinction is in the balance.
Nations of various galactic beings have not forgiven humans for how they forced their way into space, colonising planets that weren’t theirs. They say, everywhere humans have gone, rats and cockroaches have followed - vermin, all the same.
Three refugees from a doomed planet are thrown together on an empty spaceship during a botched evacuation: a young man named Elton, a baby girl whom he names Becky, and a rat. With no one on board who can pilot the ship, it simply speeds onward on "auto", at just under light speed, to nowhere, until they’re captured by galactic beings. Elton, is kept prisoner and joins other humans being held on their space station, while Becky escapes into the rat infested ventilation shafts. She grows up feral, thinking she’s a rat. She smells like a rat, squeaks like a rat, and though she is rather large, the other rats think she’s a rat.
A family of orphans, a girl and two younger boys have also managed to remain undetected, surviving in an empty section of the space station. They find Becky, and adopt her into their “family”.
The non-human Galactics decide to send their human prisoners to resettle a vacant planet that had been abandoned by the previous human population. There was a reason it was abandoned, and they don’t expect the humans to survive.
However, one galactic being among them is sympathetic towards humans, and takes an interest in Becky. One very small modification he makes in her brain, plus a fluke caused by the spins of a binary black hole, become the catalyst for Becky and her rats being the game changer for all humanity..
If you like stories of survival in the harshest of environments, plus a bit of speculative evolution, this is for you. Begin your journey by downloading the first instalment of this Space Opera trilogy.
Sequel to The Rat Queen: Humans and Rats from the ill fated planet of Malvern arrive on Old Earth, and find it only a shadow of its old self, due to not only an EMP that cut them off from the rest of the galaxy, but also another Ice Age.
They come with the tools to help, but standing in their way is human nature, and the ill intent of certain Galactic beings.
The third in the trilogy: This starts where the first one did, but outside the ship. The family that missed the flight were relations of the Grand Duke Olav Volkovitch. The baby we know as the Rat Queen, had been destined for a grand future as queen of the planet Moskovi. Everyone but Ivan, the pilot, thinks that Elton deliberately hijacked the ship, kidnapping the princess. This creates problems for Elton later on, as the Grand Duke, fleeing from intense political turmoil, arrives at Old Earth's solar system, where Strrruptl decides he would make the ideal tool for the conquest of Old Earth.
There was a stowaway on board the Duke's ship, Boris, the Duke's young grandson, who had fled onto the ship to escape the deadly confrontation between his grandfather and his parents, not knowing if his parents survived. He is the Prince.