Prodigium: Titans Unchained

For every action there is an equal and opposite reaction. From 4,500 years in our future, Bree Matthews and Jude LeClaire would wrinkle their noses at such a basic theorem, dismissing it with almost scornful laughter, considering it as hardly worthy of being taught as a first principle.

At the centre of this great contest are Alexis Romachenko, a scion of Old Earth and the leader of its World Council, and the Silva, an order comprised solely of women and the chief power on the world of Galileo. Though these two competitors have agreed to combine forces to jointly solve the last of the engineering problems they individually are facing in constructing their own wormhole generators, each is scheming to renege on their agreement. And the means to that subterfuge is Jude LeClaire.

Despite all that she has accomplished and personally sacrificed to provide the Silva with a new means to create an enhanced wormhole system, Jude feels herself betrayed by the Sisterhood. As part of the secret negotiations with Old Earth, she is required to marry Alexis. Against her will. Against her desire for freedom, Against her nascent and growing love for Bree Matthews.

Like Jude, Bree is another child prodigy. However, unlike her, he was born into squalor and poverty, never enjoying the least of even the simplest of pleasures Jude has taken for granted every day of her life. For he is a leveller. Unknown to the general population of Galileo, a people exist below the surface of their planet, incarcerated there by the Silva for crimes purportedly committed by their ancestors more than two thousand years ago.

Bree knows he has every right to loath Jude, but he follows after her once she is forced to depart from Galileo, hoping to rescue her. Though it comes at great personal cost and risk to his own life.