The ultimatum is irreversible. Earth has only two options. Get chained by the being titled jal-o who claims to be the promised god kalki. Or, die, getting drowned fathoms deep under her waiting oceans. The battle lines keep getting tangled more and more. The alien teenagers secretly hidden on earth have their own plans; the distant planet's ruler, who had sent jal-o to earth, comes to earth demanding obedience, or, else...the guru of a religious sect joins forces with kalki/jal-o. And, jal-o creates a trap for himself, craving for the missing space-opera heroine, determined to make her his slave-queen. Who'd win?

What would you do if faced with an invasion of your home/planet? Nikita Markain Malin saves the life of one invading female, falls in love with her, and follows her into her world. There, remaining hidden to all but his Jennie/Jenny, he learns more about these invaders that call themselves humans. As he lives among them, he learns he cannot survive without his own people and faith-based way of life. It comes time to return home and bring his Jennie/Jenny with him. Will his people and his family accept and welcome her? Will Niki return in time to save his own life?

Gidhas, a homo-eagle species, banished from earth in mid-historic times recruit lord Kito to launch a surprise assault on earth. Kito, a navy commander; exiled by his mother planet for treason, has his own secret goals. On the Gidha intergalactic space ship the leaders are divided in secret factions generating treachery, kidnapping, espionage, cosmic clashes, double-dealing and an impossible romance. Shola kilom, a Gidha leader, finds her Gidha-kuberian daughter, Maya Kiran, whom she had hidden on earth. Without shola's knowledge her ambassador teaches Maya to fly, which leads to a death duel on Lord Kito's planet to win the lovely Loko-human for whom Kito was exiled. It doesn't end up the way you'd expect.

In his quest to rule earth, the alien captain has five invincible weapons: the LDM (land destruction machine); his invisible third eye that when activated burns everything; the powerful religious sect, who have crowned him as god kalki; his partnership with a planetary movie producer who has manufactured an army of killing robots; and his robotic schooner star kahuna that changes shape and disappears. Humans keep falling in his vicious traps despite the help of mysterious blue-skin beings. Using his third eye, when the alien burns his partner, and, using star kahuna kidnaps five human leaders, surrounded by the victory claiming priests, earth's only choice is to surrender. Two factors the alien had missed- homo-robot birds, and a translink necklace...

Has the corrupted alien captain coverted "Operation Earth Shield" to "Operation Kill Earth?" The Doomsday question confronting both: humans living on man-made islands due to water-logged earth land erosion; and, the alien planet's rulers who had sent their navy captain on the rescue mission. Another dilemma: What's the connection between this crisis and the alien children growing up as humans, who were secretly planted on earth by unknown beings for reasons not yet discovered? And, what about those mysterious blue-skinned species being who reveal themselves only to these homo-alien children? Will the truant captain controlling the fate of two planets win?

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