Farnham's Legend is a science fiction

Science fiction

Science fiction is a genre of fiction dealing with imaginary but more or less plausible content such as future settings, futuristic science and technology, space travel, aliens, and paranormal abilities...

 novel set in the imaginary universe created for the X Computer Game Series. It was written in German

German language

German is a West Germanic language, related to and classified alongside English and Dutch. With an estimated 90 – 98 million native speakers, German is one of the world's major languages and is the most widely-spoken first language in the European Union....

 by Helge T. Kautz, and has been translated into English

English language

English is a West Germanic language that arose in the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms of England and spread into what was to become south-east Scotland under the influence of the Anglian medieval kingdom of Northumbria...

 by Steve Miller and Andreas Fuchs. Published by Egosoft

Egosoft

Egosoft is a computer game developer founded in 1988 and based in Würselen, Germany. It became a commercial company in 1990. Its first products were for the Amiga, but it later became a PC game developer....

 in 2005, it contains 349 pages.

Characters

Each chapter tells the story from one character's viewpoint. The main characters in this book are:

• Capt. Kyle William Brennan - the human test pilot of the X-perimental space shuttle and the playable character in X: Beyond the Frontier
  X: Beyond the Frontier
  X-Tension was released as an expansion to X:BTF; however, many gamers and reviewers consider it more a "sequel" than an "add-on". It follows on after the story in X: BTF, with "the evil Xenon vanquished" and the player "still stranded light years from home." The player once again takes control of...
  
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• Major Elena Kho - an other human, longtime friend of Brennan from Earth, sent to rescue Brennan by the USC.
• Cho - a humanoid Split, he is the special envoy of the patriarch of Chin.
• Nopileos - a young reptilian Teladi, he encounters Elena on her mission to find Kyle.