Probability Moon (The Probability Trilogy)

Probability Moon (The Probability Trilogy) by Kress, Nancy. hardcover edition. ISBN: 9780312874063.

Humankind has expanded out into interstellar space using star gates-technological remnants left behind by an ancient, long-vanished race. But the technology comes with a price. Among the stars, humanity encountered the Fallers, a strange alien race bent on nothing short of genocide. Its all-out war, and humanity is losing. In this fragile situation, a new planet is discovered, inhabited by a pre-industrial race who experience "shared reality"-theyre literally compelled to share the same worldview. A team of human scientists is dispatched-but what they dont know is that their mission of first contact is actually a covert military operation. For one of the planets moons is really a huge mysterious artifact of the same origin as the star gates . . . and it just may be the key to winning the war.