The last federation

An action packed science fiction space opera. Eight million years ago, an alien civilization built the perfect weapon—then used it on themselves. Now Commander Zara Voss has found their ship. Sealed inside with twelve crew members, seventy-two hours of oxygen, and no way out. The ship's ancient consciousness doesn't attack. It studies them. Tests them. And offers them the same choice it gave every civilization before them: Take the weapon home. Or die here. Three species found this ship. Three species failed. The weapon doesn't destroy cities or bodies. It reaches into civilization itself and destroys the one thing holding it together: the capacity to trust. Voss has thirty-nine hours of air left. The last four civilizations are dead. She knows what taking the weapon means. Her scientist knows a third option exists—buried in an eight-million-year-old archive, impossible to access alone. It requires the one thing they've refused each other this entire mission: Complete. Unconditional. Trust. The universe has been running this test for eight million years. Commander Zara Voss has thirty-nine hours to pass it.