Polity Agent

From 800 years in the future, a gateway is opened into the Polity. Those coming through have been sent to take the alien 'Maker' back to its home civilisation.

Agent Cormac learns that the Maker civilisation has been destroyed by a virus known as the Jain technology. Meanwhile, an entity called the Legate is distributing Jain nodes, and a renegade attack ship encounters something very nasty outside the Polity itself...