The Swarm Synopsis The loss of the USS Cosmos Odessey was a shock to the entire fleet but especially to Joe and those that had commissioned it, but they celebrated the fact that every person on board had survived. Joe, the Admiral in charge of the fleet, was thanked by Yara, the captain and her crew who stood naked just as they had miraculously arrived via the Door and announced that they were thanking him for having made sure they could save their skins and then they all gave him a salute in their birthday suits. The attack of the sentinel ship had been unprovoked. It was clear to Joe that he and his ships would return and learn why they had been attacked. On his return with the Odessey II, the Voyager and the Endeavor he confronted the alien civilization on the planet that had been protected by the deadly sentinel ship. The planet inhabitants warn Joe that beings from a nearby solar system who attack by the thousands was the reason the sentinel ship took immediate action. As Joe and his team are in the process of learning about the newly found intelligent beings, the swarm of attackers from the nearby star come streaking in at near light speed and the do indeed attack in a swarm. Joe and the three ships face the thousands of alien spaceships that attack in a swarm. The Cosmos team's superior fighting skill, their strategic fight skills and the shield technology they had salvaged from the sentinel ship let them survive the swarm of ships that in the end make their retreat back to their own solar system. The Cosmos team had the advantage that they moved from place to place in the Universe via the Hole cannon that punched a hole in the fabric of space directly to a specific coordinate. The Cosmos team then moved to that coordinate at normal rocket speed. Once again they faced off with the Naxlian's who looked somewhat like and in a confrontation fought like hornets. The subsequent battle is soon over and the enslaved group of inhabitants on the eight planet of that system rise up and assume control of their life long enemy. Joe relinquishes control of the situation to members of the United Intergalactic Worlds Organization. He and Lydia return to their ranch on Madorite to enjoy a fishing outing and to enjoy a well-earned ride on their horses, Yin and Yang.
