"The Terran Federation Navy fought desperately for over 40 years, but the Gbaba slaughtered the human race's extra-Solar colonies one by one. Now the end has come, the Earth herself lay under siege by an enemy humankind could not defeat."
"With humankind reduced to a single colony on the world of Safehold, the human rulers of the planet, in an effort to preserve the remnants of their industrial civilization, build a religion designed to hide the colony by keeping its society medieval."
"With humankind reduced to a single colony on the world of Safehold, the human rulers of the planet, in an effort to preserve the remnants of their industrial civilization, build a religion designed to hide the colony by keeping its society medieval."@en
"Here is the saga of humanity reduced, by an implacable alien enemy, to inhabiting a single colony on the distant world of Safehold. To avoid drawing the attention of the enemy through the busy signals of an industrial civilization, the rulers of Safehold have imposed a religion designed to keep society at a medieval level."

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