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: September 10th, 2517 - April 2553
: Alstad, Sansar and New Tyne, Venezia
: Naomi Senstzke is a remarkably gifted young six-year old lady who's intellect
: is noticed by a program office identifying gifted children ran by the
: Colonial Administration Authority, though it is actually a front for an
: Office of Naval Intelligence retrieval team.
: Staffan, Naomi's father, worries he can't afford the dollhouse his girl had
: been eying for quite some time. Instead, he buys her a holographic night
: light that projects the northern night sky of their home world, Sansar. He
: assures himself that she'll love the gift, being fascinated with
: astronomy, but promises to build her a dollhouse of her own.
: Hours later, Naomi's mother, Lena, rushes home frightened that she can't find
: their girl. Lena and Staffan begin on foot searching for Naomi before the
: community and police joins the effort.
: Naomi was captured by the retrieval team, and later wakes from sedation
: in-route to exfiltration. She manages to escape from her captors by
: attacking them and running into the wilderness. Naomi is later recaptured.
: Lena comes home early next morning telling Staffan that Naomi had been found
: and is at the hospital. As the minutes, hours, and days pass, they find a
: shocked little girl unable to recollect anything. Staffan knows this isn't
: his Naomi.
: Years later, after Naomi's clone replacement's passing, Lena falls into a
: terrible depression and takes her life. The Covenant later invade Sansar
: and Staffan escaped, with him a number of trinkets, including his baby's
: star lamp.
: Staffan knew the government - Earth or colonial - was responsible for his
: baby's kidnapping. He'd later meet Andy Remo, father of Arthur-079, killed
: during the raid on the Third Fleet of Glorious Consequence, was a criminal
: teaching Staffan all that he knew.
: Sometime after Sansar, Staffan married Laura, having two children of their
: own - a son, Edvin, following in his father's footsteps, and his innocent
: daughter, Hedda. Edvin married Janey and had a daughter, Kerstin, whom
: Staffan witnessed much similarities with his first daughter, Naomi. In
: 2553, he finished work on the dollhouse.
: Late 2552
: Reach
: The children are scared and they just want to go home. They cuddle for
: warmth, consoling each other, all wanting to be back with their families.
: Naomi remains confident that her father is out there and will rescue her.
: Days after their arrival on Reach, Catherine Halsey speaks with each of
: the children, informing them that their parents know where they are and
: support Halsey's decision - there is no rescue.
Pretty good synopsis.
Monstrous scenario.
I teared up here and there too.
I never read a book so fast.