Scattered Suns — Kevin J. Anderson

The war between the hydrogues and the faeros rages, reducing suns to blackened shells--including one of the fabled seven suns of the Ildiran Empire. But the humans and Ildirans caught in the crossfire are as much at risk from internal strife. The many factions of humanity are bitterly divided as Chairman Wenceslas's vendetta against all independent colonies blinds him to outside dangers. Meanwhile, Jora'h, the Ildiran Mage Imperator, must quash a bloody coup initiated by his mad brother. Into this tumult the Klikiss robots, after infiltrating the entire human military, have launched their long-planned extermination of all things flesh and blood. How will mankind and Ildirans survive a new enemy that, intends to annihilate them?