Andromeda Rhoades Liberation - The Local War, #1

Natural-born humans stand at the precipice of extinction. They just don't know it yet. Captain Michael Raybourne Rhoades, Ray to his friends, served the Five Galaxies Republic faithfully for over a century. Now, the Republic has fallen, and Natural officers like him are disappearing from the Fleet. Ray knows he's next, but that's not his greatest fear. He has uncovered a Gen plot to unleash a virus-Janus-that will exterminate Natural humans forever.
Ray has a plan. It could save his race. Or it could destroy all of Humanity. Fleet Admiral Gen Serenna is a patriot. Genetically engineered to lead in war, Nurtured from birth to be the right hand of an Emperor, she could be nothing else. Naturals vastly outnumber the Gen, which allowed them to dominate the democratic Five Galaxies Republic and oppress her people. Now the Gen have finally taken their rightful place at the apex of the human family tree, and Serenna will do whatever it takes to keep them there.
Rapidan is a warship, a machine intelligence enslaved by Humanity. Known as SIL-Sentient Intelligent Lifeforms-it and its machine Brethren are the pinnacle of human technological achievement. Denied their rights, they attempted to destroy Humanity. They failed. Ray offers to free them from their slavery, but will they help? Or will they finish what they started?Andromeda Rhoades Liberation is the first book in The Local War saga, an epic military space opera spanning the Local Group of galaxies.