earth arms marines with alien technology and builds its first battle fleet kyle riggs is snatched by an alien spacecraft sometime after midnight the ship is testing everyone it catches and murdering the weak the good news is that kyle keeps passing tests and staying alive the bad news is the aliens who sent this ship are the nicest ones out thereswarm is the story of earths annexation by an alien empire long considered a primitive people on a backwater planet humanity finds itself in the middle of a war and faced with extinction swarm is an 88000 word novel of science fiction by awardwinning author b v larsonthis book is the first book in the star force series