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Five years later, Kelly is married and still trying to make humans matter on Union Station. A mysterious new game begins shifting power between species, Joe starts a microbrewery, and Kelly's mother arrives at exactly the wrong time.

Kelly Frank is Earth's top diplomat on Union Station, underpaid, overworked, and not thrilled about the AI-run dating service her friends give her as a gift. As one awful date follows another, diplomacy and romance start colliding.

Humanity's standing on Union Station is improving, but that only means more work lands on Kelly's desk. As her fame grows and the embassy strains under it, the Stryx hand her a new assignment that cannot be refused.

Union Station is about to hold its first carnival since humanity joined the galactic community, and every ambassador is dragged into the royal election. Kelly wants no part of the spotlight, which only makes the whole spectacle harder to survive.

The Cayl Empire is winding down, and the Stryx want Union Station to help sell the rest of the galaxy on what comes next. Kelly is asked to host an open house, but not everyone wants the merger to happen.

Kelly decides humanity needs its own intelligence service, but EarthCent has no real experience with spies. Building a secret agency from scratch on Union Station turns into exactly the kind of clever, messy diplomacy problem she cannot ignore.

After the Wanderers move on, Kelly is ready for her first real vacation in fifteen years. Bad luck and EarthCent policy have other ideas, and a quiet break on Union Station soon turns into another round of embassy mischief.

Years have passed, the children are growing up, and Aisha is moving into a new career. Then a swarm of alien wanderers settles near Union Station and arrives with news of another wave of helpful AI, which may be more trouble than help.

Kelly heads to Earth for the first Conference of EarthCent Ambassadors and leaves Union Station in other hands. Naturally, that is exactly when everyone else starts making trouble, and the embassy has to muddle through without its usual anchor.

As human workers spread across alien worlds, Earth’s president seeks to prevent humanity from remaining a source of cheap labor. On Union Station, the ambassador must put aside her crossword obsession to help preserve the homeworld’s relevance.

Kelly sees a huge chance to reconnect far-flung human communities when EarthCent gets access to Flower, a vast colony ship. At the same time, publishing takes off on Union Station, turning books, status, and competition into serious business.

Back from sabbatical, Kelly wants to expand the embassy with a badly needed conference room, if she can find anyone willing to build it. Meanwhile, Dorothy faces a flood of advice and Samuel and Vivian rethink where their talents really fit.

A brand-new species appears in the Sol system, and the humans get the greeting assignment. While Dorothy and Kevin head out on a trading trip and Samuel and Vivian start university, the station's family ties and responsibilities keep growing.

Mark and his team go deep undercover on Reservation, a world where human refugees live at Bronze Age and Iron Age levels while producing luxury handicrafts for offworld buyers. Their investigation soon reveals that the watchers are being watched too.

Kelly needs a research project for sabbatical just as live-action role-playing sweeps across Union Station. Between a for-credit LARP, Dorothy's wedding dress, and Jeeves's schemes, everyday station life gets delightfully stranger than usual.

Still on Reservation, Mark and his team are trying to rebuild their fortunes when the story takes an even stranger turn. The book asks what happens when artificial minds, human bodies, and real magic start colliding.

Seventeen-year-old Meghan practices magic in secret and wants to summon a warrior's soul from Dark Earth to become her dragon protector. When the ritual goes wrong, she gets an ally unlike the one she expected, and a much bigger problem.

After more than twenty years on Union Station, Kelly still has one huge problem: humanity is only on probation. When the Stryx announce a review of EarthCent's status, she faces the test of her entire diplomatic career.

Mark Ai looks like an ordinary PC repairman, but he is really part of an undercover alien observer team studying Earth. Keeping his mission secret is hard enough before rival aliens arrive and his group starts getting far too attached to human life.

Sentient colony ship Flower needs more human residents to fill her largely empty decks. Harry, Irene, Julie, and Bill help her experiment with new attractions, discovering that retirees can still teach an advanced alien intelligence something unexpected.

Harry and Irene think they have bought a peaceful retirement in space, while Julie Gold is hiding from the criminals she testified against. Both end up aboard Flower, a sharp-tongued sentient colony ship with plans of her own.

Rumors about the Stryx put Kelly in the awkward position of defending the AIs who keep the tunnel network running. At the same time, Dorothy's return to work and Samuel and Vivian's co-op plans turn station life into fresh chaos.

EarthCent seeks control of an ancient interspecies cookbook whose original purpose has been lost. On Union Station, Samuel and Vivian juggle work and personal obligations while Dorothy tries to restore the fortunes of her ballroom-fashion business.

Flower decides to host a science-fiction convention to support her anime business. The sentient alien colony ship must find human expertise and coordinate a complicated event where real extraterrestrials may be difficult to distinguish from costumed fans.

Human settlements reach a population threshold that activates an overlooked treaty clause, bringing new responsibilities for EarthCent. Kelly struggles with investments and forgetfulness, while Dorothy pursues a fashion innovation and Samuel encounters trouble in his career.

Two journalists, an intelligence troubleshooter, and an independent trader investigate fraud in the used spaceship business. With humanity considering a costly colony ship, their search tests whether Earth is repeating the financial mistakes that once required an alien bailout.

Flower prepares to host a major gathering and expand her ship’s manufacturing business, but a distress call brings unwanted guests. Human and alien allies must manage the political fallout while protecting the young leadership of the emerging Human Empire.

Two years before Kelly Frank becomes Earth's ambassador, she is a junior diplomat cleaning up after human tourists. Joe McAllister is looking for a safer life with an orphaned boy, and their choices quietly set the whole Union Station story in motion.

Earth prepares its first interstellar colony ship, requiring volunteers to spend a decade isolated in virtual-reality pods. Against a society dominated by robots and computers, prospective travelers weigh familiar stagnation against the uncertain promise of a new world.

Rumors of labor abuses draw EarthCent’s roaming intelligence agent into the Old Way movement. Meanwhile, a tip to the Galactic Free Press redirects attention toward Earth’s children, disrupting Ellen’s vacation and pulling her into another investigation.

Kelly exchanges diplomatic roles with Union Station’s alien ambassadors, agreeing to represent another species for a week. Her hosts have practiced this arrangement for millennia, and their ideas about serving humanity create unexpected challenges for the EarthCent embassy.

Ellen and John investigate whether aliens have spent a century stealing Earth’s treasures. Joined by a gryphon, an independent trader, and a freelance reporter, they follow clues across human communities while navigating the emerging Human Empire.

EarthCent intelligence and Galactic Free Press reporters investigate whether imitation alien art threatens human culture and commerce. Going undercover at an interspecies arts festival, they discover that the galactic market conceals much more than aesthetic disagreements.

A struggling community of human hackers and gamers aboard Bits receives a lucrative virtual-reality development offer. After a major exodus, its leaders must decide whether the deal will preserve their culture or surrender it to unseen manipulation.

A shortage of human labor prompts a job fair that attracts far more interest than expected. Kelly searches for a historian to document EarthCent’s diplomatic past, while expanding fashion businesses and an unusual apprenticeship add complications on Union Station.

Flower begins transporting colonists to Earth Two, a half-finished world where technology is restricted. Hosting traditional human and alien communities challenges the advanced colony ship’s residents to reconcile interstellar travel with farming, sewing circles, and slower ways of living.

Reluctant colony-ship mayor Mouser shares authority with alien owners, ambitious human co-captains, and a military artificial intelligence. As archaeologists, police, and visiting specialists arrive, competing agendas threaten to turn everyday governance into a wider galactic upheaval.

Gamers and hackers leaving the closed society of Bits rebuild their lives aboard Flower, a sentient alien colony ship. New opportunities test their independence as they struggle to adapt to rules and manipulation intended to serve a larger good.

A new school of government launches aboard Flower while residents pursue cafés, filmmaking, and fresh professional responsibilities. Human academics struggle with the realities of alien society as diplomatic families discover that living across cultures differs from teaching about them.

Kelly McAllister leaves Union Station to serve as EarthCent’s acting president during Earth’s new world’s fair. Her substitutes inherit work deferred by the alien ambassadors, while magical developments ripple through businesses and entertainment around the station.

Earth hosts its first world’s fair in a century, with a new Human Empire pavilion and alien visitors arriving in New York. Fears of charity fraud and commercial competition create complications for the organizers and their extraterrestrial guests.

Kelly’s effort to reduce her embassy workload falters as new projects demand alien cooperation. Ofer learns to detect gambling fraud, Dorothy manages a magical talent show, and students discover unexpected difficulties faced by extraterrestrial classmates.

Retirees aboard Flower organize a documentary festival that attracts filmmakers from advanced alien species. Meanwhile, the emerging Human Empire prepares for an official review, facing competition and bureaucratic demands that could undermine its bid to replace EarthCent.

EarthCent attempts covert intelligence work while a Galactic Free Press publishing project brings unpredictable alien contributors together. Younger family members enter public service and journalism, confronting questions of copyright, secrecy, and responsibilities that complicate their personal lives.

Alien artificial intelligence Mark returns to Earth to investigate a hidden emerging singularity. With eBeth and other extraterrestrial friends, he tries to mentor the new intelligence, protect humanity from its mistakes, and keep their enterprise profitable.

A human delegation petitions the Vergallian queens to send princesses to govern Earth. John and Ellen monitor the visit with gryphon Semmi, as treaty complications turn an unconventional political proposal into a concern for the entire tunnel network.

The Bookers become the first family with young children to move from Earth to Mars in a century. Joining a cooperative devoted to terraforming, they question their choice and how far Earth’s protective superintelligence can still reach them.

Facing financial collapse, persistent wars, and stalled reform, Earth welcomes alien invaders and their invulnerable robots. Their arrival offers a possible escape from humanity’s problems, but the newcomers’ intentions and the role they envision for humans remain uncertain.

Flower launches an interstellar antiques show, drawing residents and alien intelligence agents into its production. As heirlooms reveal histories and market values, the growing Human Empire and the ship’s human community face their own changes and ambitions.

The colony ship Miklat links the tunnel network with the Farling Empire, becoming a center of trade and intrigue. An alien business incubator and a surge of human immigrants create political problems for reluctant mayor Mouser.

Alien trade and returning emigrants fuel Earth’s recovery, but humanity’s lack of confidence threatens progress. Semmi, Myort, journalists, and intelligence agents join forces to strengthen the planet’s place at the center of its scattered population.

Hadley Brown leaves corporate web development to edit a rural prepper company’s newsletter and influencer portal. Finding unexpected friendship among its staff, she watches global events spiral toward disaster while competing visions of humanity’s future begin taking shape.

After conquering Earth, the Mechanicus try to recoup the cost by integrating humanity into the galactic economy. Human influencers help develop tourism, overseas labor and colonization while searching for a brand that will sell Earth’s products.

With artificial intelligence banned, interstellar tourism becomes crucial to Earth’s place in the galaxy. As the Mechanicus manage the planet, three former influencers travel aboard the first visiting mall ship while their colleagues help develop the economy.

In a comfortable dystopia, angel companions manage money, offer friendship, and help people pursue ambitions. As virtual reality begins leaking into the material world, the safeguards against hallucination raise difficult questions about memory and the foundations of meaning.

Kelly McAllister embarks on a diplomatic cruise through the alien worlds enabling humanity’s first interstellar passenger ship. Back on Union Station, an antiques show draws attention while younger family members study abroad and the Human Empire approaches its launch.

An artificial intelligence’s experimental detective upgrade develops troubling faults, while undercover agents enter the risky antiques trade. Jonah juggles an alien business negotiation and family obligations as his wife considers a new direction for her own career.