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
A wealthy and politically connected college librarian manipulates a group of students and encourages them to put together a team that the Confederacy shouldn't ignore.
A couple of Texas oil field geologists take exception to being left behind during an aborted Confederacy pickup. One of them decides to take matters into his own hands.
Even the military forces of the Confederacy has limitations based in politics. Sometimes you get offers of help from unexpected quarters. Help you may or may not want...
The Arab League was being ignored by the Confederacy when it came to extractions and they were not happy about this. This is their response to the matter. / (Reviews)
Don Guiseppe's family grows, and brings their faith to the stars with them. The finally begin to undertake their mission against the Sa'arm. / (Reviews)
When a man with a Perfect 10.0 CAP score starts trying to get his whole family off planet, the Confederacy may need a bigger ship. Most of my sex scenes are 'off screen'. the story codes are mainly for things that are implied to be happening.
This is the first story in the 'Vulcan Colony' sub series in the Swarm Cycle Universe
Before being assigned to the drudgery of volunteer extraction duty, the intrepid Sergeant Budzinski and his platoon of Confederacy Marines take a break from the stress of combat on Tulak and set out to discover what lies underground on a dead Sa'arm world.