TFS Guardian (The Terran Fleet Command Saga, #5)

by Tori L. Harris

saying, Captain Prescott. So let me answer Commander Reynold’s question from a different perspective. The Pelaran civilization will most certainly be more at risk if we succeed in liberating it from the … shall we say the ‘protective custody’ imposed by the Alliance AI. One might even say we will be asking them to trade the illusion of safety offered by the AI in exchange for their freedom. In my experience, those two states of being are often at odds with one another. The Pelarans’ so-called safety was purchased with a disproportionate reduction in liberty which led them down the well-worn path to tyranny.