Silence on Icarus - First Contacts - short stories, #1

Homo-sapiens continues the colonization started almost eight hundred years ago. During this entire period wars did not exist, the main concern of mankind being the identification and occupation of as many habitable planets as possible and adaptation to the new environments. But things are about to change... Kipkirui troops that were thought to be just an ancient myth are beginning to make their presence felt.
While new races are emerging as humans expand their influence, ways for cohabitation will have to be found. The pioneering period in the Milky Way is about to come to an end for humanity. This series of short stories features events occurring all over the galaxy, seemingly unrelated, but which will, in one way or another, decide the future of human existence.