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The Seraphists Series is a multi-part Science Fiction series created to explore a universe where good and evil are continually engaged in a struggle for dominance, and man has been enlisted on the behalf of the good. The premise for the series is that there must be other sentient creatures out among the stars, and if those other sentients are intelligent, they must also wonder if they are alone in the vastness. And if they are curious, then they must also be seeking the answers we ourselves ponder, but also be limited by the same physical constraints that hold us to our native world. But more than that, if the universe has a distinct and unyielding set of physical laws that govern our progress and our actions, then why not a distinct moral philosophy as well? The series, intertwines mankind’s prevailing good versus evil philosophy with the sci-fi genre, and tries to answer the question 'was there an inherent behavioral instinct that gave us a boost out of the muck and on to the stars'? So, serendipitously given the tools to understand, explore, and affect the universe, wouldn't we find out there, not the moral relativism of the ‘Star Trek’ universe, or the moral indifference of the ‘Firefly’ and ‘Expanse’ universes, but instead a universal moral philosophy and balance of good and evil more reminiscent of Tolkien, and wouldn't that make the human race, as it treds on the planets of other stars, missionaries as well as explorers? In the words of Bill S Preston, the motto of the Seraphist Universe is “Be excellent to one another!” Each novel is narrated by a different member of the Twelve Tetrarchs – the group of humans that spearheads the thousand-years advances that tame human avarices and lead humanity to the stars, and each story line concentrates on a different aspect of the process that makes the transition from planet-bound to star explorers possible – as well as the many significant challenges humankind faces as it expands. The Tetrarchs are