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A Terran soldier’s cryo-pod crash-lands on Kashab, a world her fleet was sent to attack. Having spent 12 years floating in the orbital debris of her fleet, she finds herself alone and without allies on the alien planet where the ashes of her comrades rain down as deadly bullet-hail. A continuous, self-sustaining EMP has crippled the enemy, but are they really the enemy?

A native, Pel, tells her his people never threatened Terra, and a mysterious race known as the Cresari may be behind the deception. But can he be trusted? With no way to get a signal home or learn what destroyed her fleet, her only option is to make a perilous journey across Kashab to shut off the EMP. Doing so would restore the Kashabi’s ability to rebuild their technology and once again threaten Terra. Not doing so would strand her there forever. In her shielded battle-skin, she’s the only one who can, but should she?

Raindrops From Terra is the story of Andara Rax and the decisions she makes when faced with an impossible choice. In order to reach the source of the EMP, she has to band together with Pel and his crew of scrappers who eke a living by salvaging technology fallen from the mysteriously destroyed Terran fleet. Along the way, she comes to realise her commanders were either acting under false intel, or may have deliberately lied about the Kashabi threat. Armed with this new perspective, she must decide to either defy her orders and help these people, or remain on mission, despite the devastating impact her people have had on Kashab and its inhabitants.

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