The clone-warriors of the Hive, sent by the Great Mother to subjugate Earth must confront a crisis dwarfing their 200-year intergalactic war with The Enemy.
VETA, clone in the Hive Mother's mighty space fleet, the Flight, is sent through worm-space to an insignificant solar system to conquer yet another minor world. She struggles to deal with a difficult and jealous consort, matters of sacred honor (khree), and Subjugation of a planet. An Emergence accident alerts the planet's rulers, but they're primitives... right?
The American President discovers a brief flash in space brings with it First-Contact with extraterrestrials in the form of an invasion fleet of massive proportions. Will Earth's raging politics and power struggles turn to alliances as the Hive arrives to begin Subjugation?
Mechanical engineer GARRET wishes he were doing more exciting things. Flirting with the secretary, Linda, causes a fight with his arrogant boss and gets him fired. Out to get some air, Garret looks up to see the invasion forces descending and becomes surrounded in battle. Can mankind resist the overwhelming assault?
This routine conquest suddenly goes awry, as clones and humans discover a shocking truth neither is prepared to accept, shattering both Hive and Humanity. Caught in an intergalactic war between the Hive and its nemesis, The Enemy, can both humans and clones accept the truth and survive annihilation. Or not?