The Confederated Worlds: Take the Shilling, Operation Iago, and A Bodyguard of Lies (Unabridged‪)‬

A thousand years from now, while Earth sleeps in virtual reality, three polities - the Confederated Worlds, the Unity, and the Progressive Republic - strive to connect the scattered, terraformed worlds of humankind by artificial wormholes. When they meet, they clash, in a decades-long struggle of arms embroiling the settled galaxy, in which dedication to duty liberates worlds - and oneself.