Blank Slate - Mark J. McGarry - 1984 Signet Books Paperback

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BlurbWOULD THE PEOPLE OF EARTH'S LONG-LOST COLONY RELAYER

WELCOME RECONTACT-OR SEEK VENGEANCE ON THE WORLD THEY THOUGHT HAD BETRAYED THEM?

“THE PORTAL WARS were only a grim, century-old memory—or were they? The Portals had been a gift, built by aliens to connect Earth and her far-flung colonies. First they had brought peace and plenty, then plague and devastation. Did the beings responsible still wait out among the stars to finish the deadly war begun so very long ago?

Kearin Seacord didn't know the answers. He only knew that his bosses in Triumviratine Earth's Security Division had chosen him to assume the role of documentary filmmaker Brian Kuhl on a mission to recontact Earth's most distant and dangerous colony-Relayer. Settled by Earth dissidents, Relayer had once been considered a

ared Earth

safety valve for troublemakers. Now, it could be a crucial outpost in Earth's defense.

But, after a

hundred years with no word from Earth, a hundred years spent just trying to stay alive on the desolate rock called Relayer, would the colonists welcome Brian Kuhl and the crew of the starship Belfast as saviors— or see them as a treacherous enemy to be quickly destroyed?“