I have an odd relationship with this series, on one hand I adore this series and wish that more people knew about this series and the other there is some flaws that makes me a bit hesitant to recommend this series to anyone I know. this first book in this series that I have finished the series in November 25-26 2023, probably dose not help the latter bit of the problem at all. it has the most wasted of potential of a prelude that should have been more of the first book of the series instead of being shoved into the first bit, as well as being a bit slow. but luckily the concepts of the series and characters are too wonderful for me to ignore (some how made aliens feel alien and made a diplomat look like an interesting job) and made me do something I never did before, try to listen to an audio book that may be technically 12 hours long. the reason in the title for cancelled is that the audio books was cancelled by DAW for some reason despite it being the most loved way of enjoying the series, which was a big why would they do that?.