Foundations

When Hale Burch returns from two hundred million years in the future, he and his companions have a clear mission: stop the dystopian future where humans become the docile pets of the technological races from coming into being. If they don't succeed, all the progress humanity has made in advancing as an interstellar species will cease to matter. Now back in Burch's time, they have a chance to defeat the technologicals who control the future before they ever have a chance to enslave humanity.

Meanwhile, Carolina Dreeson and the crew of the Yankee-Chaos are busy trying to stop the deadliest war in human history. A chance meeting with an unforgettable assassin, as well as intel from their newest crew members put them on the trail of the Etteran Guild's former spy chief, Akop Hernan, who may hold the key to the conspiracy at the heart of the West Battery War.

When Burch and Carolina finally meet again with the new friends they've made along the way, they each find their old friends in the company of bitter enemies, with objectives that no longer seem to align. They'll all need to find enough common ground to work together in the present time to stop both the ongoing war and Burch's hopeless future from materializing. The keys to this unfolding mystery may not lie in the present, though, but within the mysterious time-bending artifacts that possess the power to send them back to the roots of their interstellar civilization's troubles. The Misfits are back, and the future will never be the same!