Uplift

It is twenty years from the present date and Richard Patterson is an aging warrior about to check out of this life. Just retired from a large multinational private military, he is chosen to have a different fate, which will change his life and those of every being on Earth. How could this one man move from a menial social class to challenge the elites? How could one man prepare the Earth to defend itself from a threat that has destroyed advanced, interstellar civilizations for millennia? His lead-time is short and he faces a corrupt, self-serving society. Just surviving the day is a challenging since half of Earth�s population will die�through our own misdeeds.