The Swarm Cycle is a collection of stories written around a concept introduced by the Thinking Horndog about an alien invasion and Earth's reaction to it. The intent is for it to be a public, multi-author universe after the fashion of the popular Naked in School stories.
The Sa'arm, a tripedal race with some physical resemblance to a cross between a mushroom and a lizard but with a hive mind, is sweeping across this galactic arm toward the center. They communicate by some sort of ESP, and ignore any race that does not. In their path is the Confederacy, a Galactic civilization that universally practices nonviolence -- and Earth...
Interested authors should examine the Swarm Author's page at http://www.asstr.org/~Thinkers_tales/Stories/The_Swarm/Swarm_Authors.html
This is the foundation of the Swarm Cycle. The alien Sa'arm are sweeping through the Galaxy and the Confederacy has offered to assist in evacuating Earth in return for our support -- but we need to evaluate people for the Defense Forces and we need a mechanism for selecting who will be evacuated and who will not... / (Reviews)
A story set in the Sa'arm universe. A young man who grew up in the colony on Demeter takes his CAP test on his 14th birthday. The results are far more than he had ever expected. The Score, the Girls, the Future! / (Reviews)
Not all things are good in the Confederacy. Aftercare for concubines is noticable by its absence. Into this breach steps the Civil Service and David ap Rhys. Watch as he goes through the extraction process.
Centurion ap Rhys has to deal with the concubines after a Marine company is destroyed. As if that's not hard enough the Sa'arm arrive on his colony. Who ever said being a non-combatant was easy. A sequel to Civil Service.
