When the Overlord, leader of the Wat Sharo United Assembly, announces that the Earth will be destroyed, the whole galaxy goes into shock. That single planet, a product of years of non-stop work and the best scientists the galaxy could gather, had been the Assembly’s pride and joy since its creation, and now it was going to be destroyed forever.
Rowe doesn’t want to believe the news. She had studied and trained to research on Earth, desperate to find the meaning behind her mother’s final message. Delivered by a confused pilot just after her disappearance, her mother’s last transmission urged Rowe to discover the truth; the humans weren’t as barbaric as everyone thought.
Unwilling to give up on her dreams, Rowe forms a plan to visit Earth herself by sneaking into the galaxy’s most prized laboratories and hijacking an Earthbound spaceship. And she makes it to the lab, only to be caught with her hand inches from the ignition switch. Rowe is arrested and thrown into prison, charged with high treason.
Usually, a charge like that would get you exiled to one of the galaxy’s outer planets, but the Overlord takes interest in Rowe’s skill, deciding to recruit her instead of punishing her. He offers her a place among the maintenance teams that will be shutting down the last few Assembly bases on Earth. It’s an offer Rowe can’t refuse, but soon her dream job becomes a nightmare.
When she realizes that the humans aren’t the savage monsters she had been taught to fear, a thought almost considered treason back home, she becomes a threat not only to her own people but to the entire planet Earth. Her people want her dead, the humans want to slice her open and study her alien insides, and as Rowe tries desperately to evade them the time is still ticking down to the Earth’s destruction; the planet is rigged to blow. The fate of two civilizations rests on Rowe’s shoulders. She can either stay loyal to her own home and species or serve as humanity’s one last chance to evade a fiery death. Either way, Rowe’s loved ones are going to get hurt, but who deserves to live more?
Our fate is out of our hands now. Welcome to the end of the world.
Still reeling from the crippling loss of The Reformation War, the Daix are eager to regain their position as the most powerful system in the galaxy. Their plan? Create a planet from scratch, populate with some home made intelligent species, then simply sit back and relax as the new creation thrives, providing its parent with a surplus of natural resources and free labor, just what a system on the path to regrowth needs. Thus, the Earth is born. For ages the Wat Sharo United Assembly happily profits off of their successful little science experiment, that is until another system decides that they want in on the deal. As conflict brews, the Wat Sharo United Assembly panics, unsure what to do with their precious planet. Finally, a decision is reached; if they can’t have the planet, nobody can. A new project is put into place, one that will destroy the Earth, its human inhabitants, and tie up a few other loose ends as well.
Enter Rowe Mylnes. After receiving a cryptic last message from her mother shortly before her death on planet Earth, Rowe has pushed herself up through the ranks in order to earn a spot on a ship to Earth herself, devoted to decoding her mother’s message and finishing what she started. She is ready to escape the US government and find danger around every corner, but doesn’t expect to find that humans aren’t as bad as they seem, nor does she expect to fall in love with one.
She quickly goes from being completely insignificant to having two galaxies counting on her, and it’s not as easy as in it seems in the movies.
The Earth Experiment is a finished novel going through yet another round of edits. Currently, the word count hovers around 100K, twice the size of the original draft, which just barely won NaNoWriMo at 50K words.