David Guenther

A little over a century into the future, international conflicts had resulted in a nuclear attack on Washington, DC, destroying most of the government. Using security as justification, a cabinet secretary takes over the presidency and suspends most of the constitution, using over-regulation to have the government take over many private corporations and muzzle the media to form a socialist regime. Many older military members began to reject the orders from this unconstitutional non-republic government and left their positions to go into a ramshackle style of retirement, which is why veteran Dan Daniels found himself in an Arizona cave hiding his poached bighorn sheep meal from a Homeland Security drone, only to uncover an ancient hibernating alien spaceship shuttle, lost during a battle between two major alien forces within a galaxy wormhole eons ago. Inside the shuttle is an artificial intelligence with a knowledge of amazing technology, as well as information that an alien race will shortly appearing to conquer the earth and enslave humanity. Dan realizes that the alien technology will be valuable to create a militia of fellow vets to defend the earth, but his first order of business for the Gray Panthers is to restore the constitution and republic of the United States. This first book of a science fiction military utopian trilogy focuses mainly on the formation and rise of the Gray Panthers with the near superhuman technology of virtual eternal life, omniscient monitoring and oversight, and super space vehicle construction. There is very little conflict, which is quickly handled by the super technology, a plot characteristic that may be a drag for some readers, but for those readers that are strongly empathetic with military duty and honor, the process of accomplishment by the characters will be respected. There is a bit of a political imbalance in the main theme that will put some readers off.… (meer)