The Second Cipher War Part 1: 2374 to 2375

The Second Cipher War is over, but survival is not victory. With the existential threat of the machines undiminished, humanity and its allies must unite as never before—if they can stop tearing each other apart long enough to try...***The first Si Vis Astra novel, Lessons of War, is now available in audiobook format!***Read a transcript of this episode on Substack.Watch this episode on YouTube.Theme music: "The Ice Giants" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 Licensehttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/[email protected]

The war between humanity and the machines has become a strange stalemate, one in which time favors the machines. But a technological breakthrough is about to change everything...***The first Si Vis Astra novel, Lessons of War, is now available in audiobook format!***Read a transcript of this episode on Substack.Watch this episode on YouTube.Theme music: "The Ice Giants" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 Licensehttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/[email protected]

Humanity is caught offguard at the beginning of our second war against the alien machines known as the Ciphers—not by the ferocity of their attack, but by their caution. Are they testing us, offering us a way out... or merely drawing us into a trap?***The first Si Vis Astra novel, Lessons of War, is now available in audiobook format!***Read a transcript of this episode on Substack.Watch this episode on YouTube.Theme music: "The Ice Giants" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 Licensehttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/[email protected]

A Terran scientific mission to the newly discovered planet Sukat has been captured by the Ciphers. The next steps the Alliance takes could mean the difference between a new era of peace, and galactic war...***The first Si Vis Astra novel, Lessons of War, is now available in audiobook format!***Read a transcript of this episode on Substack.Watch this episode on YouTube.Theme music: "The Ice Giants" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 Licensehttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/[email protected]

The discovery of three alien civilizations under Cipher control kicks off a panic in the human-virgonid alliance—but when the machines appear not to have detected the human intrusion, the allies are left with a difficult choice to make.***The first Si Vis Astra novel, Lessons of War, is now available in audiobook format!***Read a transcript of this episode on Substack.Watch this episode on YouTube.Theme music: "The Ice Giants" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 Licensehttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/[email protected]

Humanity and the virgonids rebuild after the devastation of the war—but history did not stop with the destruction of the Machine World. ***The first Si Vis Astra novel, Lessons of War, is now available in audiobook format!***Read a transcript of this episode on Substack.Watch this episode on YouTube.Theme music: "The Ice Giants" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 Licensehttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/[email protected]

The Allied Combined Fleet prepares for a showdown at the Machine World. Hundreds of light years from home, far from any support, the fate of humanity will be decided...***The first Si Vis Astra novel, Lessons of War, is now available in audiobook format!***Read a transcript of this episode on Substack.Watch this episode on YouTube.Theme music: "The Ice Giants" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 Licensehttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/[email protected]

The destruction of an entire TIU colony world has turned the war from a struggle for dominance into a fight for survival. Despite their many setbacks, the Terrans are refusing to surrender—but they can't defeat the Corporate Worlds and their machine servants on their own. In desperation, they must turn to an enemy for deliverance.***The first Si Vis Astra novel, Lessons of War, is now available in audiobook format!***Read a transcript of this episode on Substack.Watch this episode on YouTube.Theme music: "The Ice Giants" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 Licensehttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/[email protected]

The Corporate Worlds have openly entered the war, and the Terrans are on the back foot. The Free Worlders have been granted a reprieve, but with the three-way conflict having devolved into a fight over the galaxy's only source of antimatter, it will only be a matter of time before they too are strangled into submission.Meanwhile, the machines the OIGC believes they are controlling may have their own agenda...***The first Si Vis Astra novel, Lessons of War, is now available in audiobook format!***Read a transcript of this episode on Substack.Watch this episode on YouTube.Theme music: "The Ice Giants" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 Licensehttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/[email protected]

Explorers from the Corporate Worlds have discovered something beyond the edge of settled space—a machine world that may hold the answers to a mystery that has plagued both humanity and the virgonids for centuries.But Corporate leadership has no intention of sharing this discovery with the rest of humanity...***The first Si Vis Astra novel, Lessons of War, is now available in audiobook format!***Read a transcript of this episode on Substack.Watch this episode on YouTube.Theme music: "The Ice Giants" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 Licensehttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/[email protected]