Arandice

Follow the incredible journey of Paul Smith across planets. First as an orphan from the Battle of the Twenty Suns, to his destiny as the rebel confronts the Federation Empire forces on the ice planet Arandice. As a child, his homeworld of Arandice is shattered by the imperial Red General’s use of an Illyrion weapon. He and thousands of children are spared in a prisoner exchange and banished to a lonely planet in the nether reaches of the known Federation Empire.
Using his guile and academic brilliance, Paul discovers dark secrets of the Ultra Democrat’s Twenty Suns, is released from the orphanage planet to attend university. On Earth, he finds love and knowledge, but both present dangers and he is banished to Arandice; a cold but restive mining planet. There he discovers the long-hidden sapient beings - snow eagles, and that the power of political ideas, and love, can transform an Empire.