The relationships of nation-states and the citizens within them are allegorized in a riveting tale of humanoid Giants, and their tiny operators, at war over territory, technology and faith. This highly unique story, conveyed through the parallel perspectives of the tiny inhabitants and the giants that harbor them, is profound in its allegories to human history and geopolitics.
Although threats remained, the new enemy was ill-defined and far more difficult to recognize. Like an insidious infection, it was dispersed and fractionalized. It was growing and spreading steadily amongst the Aents, altering their ethos, corrupting their minds, and hijacking their bodies. Those afflicted became openly hostile toward Thomas, as well as to any Aent that embraced the modern world and the progress it had to offer. It was a war of ideology, with Thomas representing everything the enemy rebelled against.The fate of the BioVessel Thomas and its thirty million citizens rests in the hands of Champlain Hartwick, captain of the V-Centimedi defense station. Terrorists, intent on spreading their radical ideology, have infected the Thomas and recruited a traitor within to help them hijack a neighboring vessel. Champlain, and his unlikely compatriots, must engage in a clandestine effort to unravel their plot and stop them from wreaking havoc on all of Terrangea. Thomas the Aent, the semi-sentient vessel operated by his tiny inhabitants, must deal with the spread of what he sees as an infection crippling the Aents.