The Warriors of Spider

The Directorate was run by the poweful few - genetically altered humans permanently linked with the GI-net, the massive computer network which contained everything there was to know about the planets and space stations claimed by humankind. For centuries, the Directorate has ruled over countless star systems, its authority absolute and unquestioned. But now stirrings of rebellion were being felt in the far-flung commercial empire. And at this crucial time, the Directorate has discovered a planet out beyond its farthest reaches, a place known only as a World, where the descendants of humans stranded long ago by a starship crash had survived by becoming a race of warriors, a race led by its Prophets, men with the ability to see the many possible pathways of the future. Men who has already foreseen the coming of the Directorate's Patrol ship Bullet - and were preparing their warriors for this first contact in which even one wrong choice could destroy both World and empire...