Downbelow Station Author:C.J. Cherryh The pioneering new colonies of deep space, calling themselves the Union, have rebelled against the repressive old order of the Earth Company. In a war of attrition, the Union's vast resources from the beyond have whittled Earth Company's once great fleet down to a handful of carrier jumpships. Now fighting a rear-guard action, as successive stat... more »ions fall to the Union, the depleted but still-powerful fleet regroups about Pell, the last neutral star-station, with its native population of furry, gentle Hisa.« less