Bøker av Robert Aubecker

Five centuries have past since the Cuians cruelly subjugated the Lledumar, and they still speak for them despite Mainnstaad Officials regularly sent to check on the plight of the Lledumar. The outcome is exactly as Duke Daega Lohwrune predicted. Any Mainnstaad Officials sent to New Xinar to report on their treatment of the Lledumar say all is well. A new Empire, born from Stella Raffaella's confederacy, has changed the galaxy, but the Cuians remain aloof to it. The Lledumar have ached for freedom since year one, expecting a promise to be fulfilled. And every year ask for it but fail. The Cuians claim a threat still exists to them (and the Lledumar) so refuse to free them. The Cuians suddenly announce they intend to join the Empire. The Lledumar are devastated by the news. If the Cuians succeed, the Lledumar will lose any chance at freedom. The Empire's Mainnstaad, which controls membership, expects honesty and openness from potential members; no skeletons in the closest. So, in a clever move hailed by the Lledumarian High Council, intended to expose the Cuians and cast doubt on their honesty, supported by an independent group of Lledumarians called the Lledumarian Freedom Forum (LFF), the speaker of the next emancipation talks invites the Mainnstaad to arbitrate and they agree. One Cuian Senator, Korrs Verntinus, takes his mandate too seriously and secretly bribes the Mainnstaad Officials, bringing a positive result for the Cuians. One of the Mainnstaad Officials, however, has a loose tongue, and news of the bribery gets back to the Lledumar. The Lledumarian High Council feels defeated, but for the LFF, it's a call to action. They devise a cunning plan to implicate Verntinus and almost succeeds, but for a conscientious IBP senior investigator named Clynne Raxxman, who not only figures who committed the murder and why, but unearths a plot to destroy the Cuians. His survival now depends on a stranger; someone with the means to destroy an Empire; change the face of the galaxy.

Treachery Among the Stars is set in an alternate universe, with elements of political thriller and military action, told from multiple points of view. The differing trading cultures are competitive and steady, but a warring faction wants to control them all. The story focuses on four main groups: the Lledumar, the Cuians, the Jannxians, and the Hrexan. They are spacing faring peoples but have slightly different cultures. The Hrexan start a galactic war by trying to invade many planets. The Cuian homeworld of Xinar is hit - the largest culture in that region of space. The Cuians, though they've been nasty to most of the other cultures in one form or another in their region, request help from the Lledumar. The Lledumar are still reeling from a trade route plundering issue that other cultures are saying is the work of the Cuians. The hapless Lledumarian duke doesn't know what to do. The Lledumarian duke must decide whether to help the Cuians. If he doesn't, the Hrexan will invade his planet next. So, he decides to help the Cuians but plans to evacuate Lleddu if the Hrexan win. But no one knows the fervent Hrexan attempt to control this region of space but are shocked when they learn the true reach of Hrexan warring. The combined Cuian-Lledumarian forces do not prevent Xinar from being invaded. But just when a contingent of Cuians escape Xinar, an unknown confederacy attacks the Hrexan. The Cuians think the unknown confederacy will suffer the same fate as they did, but they head for Lleddu, the Lledumarian homeworld, and forget about the confederacy. The Lledumarians are surprised to learn that a contingent of Cuians is heading their way, expecting only the Hrexan - especially since the rumours of Cuian treachery, the demise of their armed forces and loss of their homeworld. And treachery is still on the minds of the Cuians. The hapless Lledumarian duke is about to learn treachery wears many faces, even the guise of a friend.