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A Broken Alliance

A Broken Alliance

With the war against the Centaurs won, is a lasting peace finally at hand?Staff Sergeant Reverent Pelletier has been attached to the Congress of Humanity’s Home Guard, tasked with keeping the home system safe.Old rivalries and new enemies threaten the...

A Meeting of Minds

A Meeting of Minds

A derelict Tucanan ship, floating in space. An intel bonanza that can help turn the tide of the war . . . or a trap?The only way to find out is to send in the Undead.As the Tucanan war machine continues to evolve and try new tactics, all of humanity...

"Be where your enemy is not." (Sun Tzu)The time has come for Commodore Jack Romanoff and the crew of the battleship Delta Orionis to strike back at the robotic Locusts. He’s outgunned, outnumbered, and commands a battleship flown by battered and...

An Alliance Reforged

An Alliance Reforged

This is a new kind of war.The MDS and allies have withdrawn from the CoH, and they now want to become the center of gravity for humankind.The goal is to obtain localized wins, draw in more allies, and achieve victory no matter the cost.With the...

An Uneasy Alliance

An Uneasy Alliance

The war is over. Peace has at last descended over the humanity . . . or so it would appear.The Centaurs may no longer pose a threat, but a new war is on the horizon, though it hides in the shadows of two empires.Rumors of alien tech have set...

With new systems come new problems.Now that August Walton is dead and new information has come to light, Cole Riker and his team of misfits are finally back on the cosmic highway to another unknown location.This time they might actually have a shot at...

When you find yourself in a hole, stop digging.Commodore Jack Romanoff and his merry band of ragtag navy rejects—skilled yet young war reenactors, a rescued navy crew, and a Confederation spy—have rescued more than two hundred civilian ships and...

Live for today. Prepare for tomorrow.The unknown reaches of the galaxy still offer danger for Sergeant Major Reverent Pelletier and his small group of Marines and karnans. They must be ready to protect their own.But back in human space, war has reared...

As a captain, Ryck Lysander has been given one of the most sought-after assignments in the Marines: an infantry company commander.His new battalion commanding officer, however, is not impressed with Ryck’s past accomplishments, and Ryck finds himself...

Children of Angels

Children of Angels

The war has only just begun.While rescuing a world from Centaur control, the Marines discover that not all humans on the planet are slaves. The Children of Angels believe their masters have been sent by the gods to lift up mankind.Humanity now has two...

Ryck has proven himself as a warrior and a hero, but in times of peace, that can lead to trouble. Ryck's temper gets the best of him, and because of that, and with a heavy heart, he resigns his commission.As an old enemy comes a-calling, a new threat...

Command Authority

Command Authority

Victory snatched from the jaws of defeat.Commodore Jack Romanoff and his ragtag crew have repaired their ancient battleship, scattered their adversaries at New Copenhagen, and discovered what was really behind the invasion. Now they must make the...

Major General Lysander has spent 38 years of his life dedicated to the Corps and sworn to perform the duties assigned to him by the Federation.In the process, he has become the most decorated Marine in its history.During his career, he has been given...

The End is Nigh.Noth, humanity's greatest threat, has awoken and he's out for blood. So is Cole and his merry crew of misfits. They have the means to get it, too. Sort of. Their weapon might not be fully functional, but it just needs a power boost....

Cole Riker is a free man.Or close enough. He no longer has the weight of his past hanging over him, threatening to put him away for the rest of his days. All it took was finding an unknown alien lifeform and agreeing to escort it back to its...

The end of the Undead could be upon us.The Undead continue to take the fight to the Tucanan invaders, but it’s difficult to achieve such notable success without attracting attention.Rumors continue to surface about clones and zombies, sparking...

Cole and his crew are lost in space and stranded with no way home.After escaping from the colony ship in a faraway system Cole has uncovered sinister evidence of August Walton's oppression: A castoff civilization living in the past and forced to...

Gray has been taken captive and become the host of a Controller.But not for long, not if Cole has anything to say about it. Determined to recover his hijacked crew member, he sets out to do what he does best: raise hell and kick ass.With his...

Destiny of Blood

Destiny of Blood

Renegades don't leave jobs half finished.Despite a warning to return home, Cole isn't about to leave his allies before their little slug infestation has been dealt with. This time, he plans to take the fight to them. Of course, when humans make plans,...

Kayan has emerged from the Hoyon citadel repaired and refreshed, though she’s a bit cagey.Why would she share what kind of upgrades the healing process bestowed upon her? Noah Gantz is just glad to be back in the action, seeking Seer secrets, a way to...

Exiled to Perdition

Exiled to Perdition

Where does a warrior go when the war is over?Forged into human weapons to defend humanity against impossible odds, Sergeant Major Reverent Pelletier and the rest of the IBHU Marines and other hyper-augments are discarded by those they fought to...

It was all just a game...or was it?Contact has been made with the alien Overlords. They’re not the end of our civilization like we feared; instead, they were just training us to participate in a galactic war they’ve been fighting.Or so they say.But...

War sucks...especially when you’re fighting for the wrong side.After getting shot down over Tau Ceti, Uplink Squadron commanding officer Lance Baker has come to the realization that Earth is fighting for the wrong side in the ongoing galactic war.The...

Everything in war is very simple, but the simplest thing is difficult.Admiral Jack Romanoff and his crew have fought the invaders to a standstill, and have plans to strike them even harder, but that won’t be easy. The Novarites know about them and...

A major battle has been won. Now what?A joint task force of humans and synthetic intelligences (SIs) has defeated the Overlord’s Fleet Twenty-Seven, and peace reigns throughout the region surrounding Earth...for now.But the Overlords are sure to...