title: Unity (Star Trek: Deep Space Nine)
author:  S.D. Perry 
description: <b>S. D. (Stephani Danelle) Perry</b> writes multimedia novelizations in the fantasy/science fiction/horror realms for love and money, occasionally in that order. She's worked in the universes of <i>Resident Evil, Aliens, Xena</i> and, most recently, <i>Star Trek;</i> she has also written a few short stories and translated a couple of movie scripts into books. Danelle, as she prefers to be called, lives in Portland with an incredibly patient husband and their two ridiculous dogs. She and her husband have recently been joined by the best baby ever, Cyrus Jay.
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  PROLOG
  
  
  
  
  
  PERRY RHODAN'S DISCOVERY Of the Moon-stranded Arkonide exploration ship became
  the cornerstone for the political unity of Mankind as well as a "launch-pad"
  for the growth of the Solar Empire. But not even Rhodan himself could perceive
  the magnitude of effort and nerve stamina that would be required over the
  ensuing course of years in order to preserve this empire against attacks from
  the outside as well as from within.
  
  
  
  
  
  Perry Rhodan has recognized one fact for certain: the safety and further
  development of humanity could not be assured until peace was established in
  the entire galaxy!
  
  
  
  
  
  Even the undying Atlan seeks such a peace, having recently taken the place of
  the robot Regent, that mighty positronic brain that had previously employed
  the merciless forces of its robot fleets to smash every revolution against the
  central Arkonide power.
  
  
  
  
  
  Atlan, who is now Imperator Gonozal VIII, and Perry Rhodan, Admini