Description: The interstellar wormholes had mysteriously failed and the Great Silence fell across a third of interstellar civilization. As had happened long before during the Middle Ages, faith kept hope alive in a new Dark Age. Centuries later, Dr. Karl Woodward, preacher and leader of the starship The Mountain, brings the Word to a lost colony of farmers on an uncharted world, and discovers that saving their souls is the least of his problems. A stranded crew of space pirates has terrorized them for decades. Now the pirate captain holds Woodward's crew hostage as well. And he wants The Mountain....

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