table of contents # prelude # dramatis personae # chapter 1 # chapter 2 # chapter 3 # chapter 4 # chapter 5 # chapter 6 # chapter 7 # chapter 8 # chapter 9 # chapter 10 # chapter 11 # chapter 12 # chapter 13 # chapter 14 # chapter 15 # chapter 16 # chapter 17 # chapter 18 # chapter 19 # chapter 20 # chapter 21 # chapter 22 # chapter 23 # chapter 24 # chapter 25 # chapter 26 # chapter 27 # chapter 28 # chapter 29 # chapter 30 # chapter 31 # chapter 32 # chapter 33 # chapter 34 # chapter 35 # chapter 36 # chapter 37 # chapter 38 # chapter 39 # chapter 40 # chapter 41 # chapter 42 # chapter 43 # chapter 44 # chapter 45 # chapter 46 # chapter 47 # chapter 48 # chapter 49 # chapter 50 # chapter 51 # chapter 52 # chapter 53 prelude to a war story deep within the galactic bulge , far away from the ancestral home of humanity , known to some as the blue marble , lie the center worlds .