Death's Head Rebellion - War World, Bk 2 Author:Jerry Pournelle, John F. Carr, Roland Green The cause of the collapse of the First Empire of Man in the twenty-seventh century was a war of extermination fought between the 'old style' humanity and the bio-engineered Sauron Supermen, creatures who walked like men. thought like battle computers, and fought like demons. Though humanity eventually annihilated the home world of the Saurons, t... more »he cost was high; the Empire fell into a new Dark Age in which the secret of interstellar travel was lost for centuries. So when a remnant of the Saurons escaped to a world called Haven, the merely human inhabitants should have been easy prey for the superhuman newcomers. But the Saurons hadn't anticipated a mutiny in their own ranks leading to a three-cornered war.« less