This event raises many questions, most prominent of them being the purpose of Dragon, the huge bio-construct that the Makers created and sent to the Polity. With runcible time-travel not recommended by the AI’s of the Polity due to the huge power requirements and dangers it involves, this situation is used solely to destroy the Jain infested Maker civilisation and most of the Small Magellanic Cloud. Īs a runcible – the FTL wormhole gates used as interstellar transportation – opens from 800 years in the future, and the team that were sent to return the Maker to its civilisation in the Small Magellanic Cloud comes through in a panic, the Makers’ civilisation overrun by Jain tech.
and a renegade attack ship, The King of Hearts, has encountered something very nasty outside the Polity itself. This raises questions: why was Dragon, a massive bioconstruct of the Makers, really sent to the Polity why did a Jain node suddenly end up in the hands of someone who could do the most damage with it? Meanwhile an entity called the Legate is distributing toxic Jain nodes. Once these refugees are safely through, the gate itself is rapidly shut down – because something alien is pursuing them.įrom those who get through, agent Cormac learns that the Maker civilization has been destroyed by pernicious virus known as the Jain technology. Those coming through it have been tasked with taking the alien ‘Maker’ back to its home civilization in the Small Magellanic cloud. Space opera on a magnificent, non-stop roller-coaster of actionįrom 800 years in the future, a runcible gate is opened into the Polity.
Of course, just because that sub-story concluded it doesn’t mean everything is fine, far from it – Jain tech is still out there and Polity Agent hits the ground running.
The second and third books in the series, The Line of Polity ( review) and Brass Man ( review), dealt with the emergence of Jain tech and Skellor’s use of it, and was a fairly self-contained duology within the main story. Polity Agent is the fourth book in the Agent Cormac series, a series I’ve been recently re-reading and thoroughly enjoying.
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