<I>First Contact Was Friendly</I><P>When aliens trundled a gate to other worlds into the solar system, the world reacted with awe, hope and fear. But the first aliens to come through, the Glatun, were peaceful traders and the world breathed a sigh of relief.<P><I>Who Controls the Orbitals, Controls the World</I><P>When the Horvath camw through, they announced their ownership by dropping rocks on three cities and gutting them. Since then, they've held Terra as their own personal fiefdom.&nbsp;With their control of the orbitals, there's no way to win and earth's governments have accepted the status quo.<P><I>Live Free or Die.</I><P>To free the world from the grip of the Horvath is going to take an unlikely hero. A hero unwilling to back down to alien or human governments, unwilling to live in slavery and enough hubris, if not stature, to think he can win.<P>Fortunately, there's Tyler Vernon. And he has bigger plans than just getting rid of Horvath.<P><I>Troy Rising</I> is a book in three parts-Live Free of Die being first part-detailing the freeing of earth from alien conquerors, the first steps into space using off-world technologies and the creation of Troy, a thousand trillion ton battlestation designed to secure the solar system.