Alliance (2005) is an award-winning sci-fi adventure set in the 24fth century.
Many of the stories and deeds of men ultimately vanish into obscurity. Fame and beauty are ephemeral. Treasures are won and lost. Empires are created and destroyed. What survives is often passed down as legend and myth.
But some stories are not forgotten with time's passage. Sometimes they live on to inspire great ambition, merciless revenge... or both.
Alliance is such a story.
Earth is under attack by a shadowy extraterrestrial race called the Kytaan. The attacks are as inexplicable as they are brutal. Simultaneously, a decades-old Anarchist movement has seemingly taken to violent means, plunging the planet into cycles of terrorist attacks and counter-insurgency destruction.
Jenna Yameen, the rebellious and faithless daughter of a famous Arab archeologist, starts her story in the midst of this brutal violence. Though long estranged from her father and his old-world values, she takes up his military-funded research after he disappears in a terrorist attack. Jenna subsequently discovers the simple artifact, a Tablet, that her father spent a lifetime seeking.
Yet it is infinitely more than it seems and becomes the source of division within Earth's own military alliance. When Jenna deciphers a message from the Tablet, she must depend on Hasan Gabriel, a tough Bedouin fighter pilot who is as devout as he is blind, to take her on a dangerous mission, unsanctioned even by the Earth Alliance.
At stake: mankind's very survival.