"In the fourth Looking Glass novel, the "Vorpal Blade II" is dispatched to investigate rumors of an ancient and powerful civilization that may have been the creators of the black box that drives humanity's only space ship. Any remnant technology would be nice, but what the "Vorpal Blade II" finds is much more than its crew had bargained for."
"Sent to investigate rumors of an ancient and powerful alien civilization that may have created the "Black Box" that drives the space ship, the crew of the Vorpal Blade must first deal with an unpopular new commander and an infestation of scorpion-like arachnoids."@en
"In the fourth Looking Glass novel, the "Vorpal Blade" is dispatched to investigate rumors of an ancient and powerful civilization that may have been the creators of the black box that drives humanity's only space ship. Any remnant technology would be nice, but what the "Vorpal Blade" finds is much more than its crew had bargained for."

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