Space Colony

Caleb is a former Marine Raider and commander of the Vultures, a search and rescue team that's spent the last two years pulling high-value targets out of alien-ravaged cities and shipping them off-world. When his new orders call for him to join 40,000 survivors aboard the last starship out, he thinks his days of fighting are over. The Deliverance represents a fresh start and a chance to leave the war behind for good. Except the war won't be as easy to escape as he thought.

We fought the invading New Men to a standstill and defeated the alien destroyer sent to obliterate Earth. The worst should be over, but it's not. Perfect android replicas are impersonating high-level officials so trust is failing. Worse, the New Men have found allies with an impenetrable stealth technology. This time, however, Earth is going on the offensive. Admiral Fletcher is headed to C Quadrant with a Grand Fleet. He's to liberate the captured planets and find the enemy homeworld.

The story within this book is confronting, seemingly impossible, and beyond logic for the common person. How could someone be kidnapped, live in their body for twenty years, then returned to the point of kidnapping at the same age? Once unheard of, a twenty year tour—often partially served in outer space—has now become a phenomenon that more and more claim to have experienced. Few have the depth of memory and detail as Tony Rodrigues. This is an account of what is being hidden from us and just how far they have gone without us. Deep in our souls, we know the truth is stranger than ...

Launching the Colony is the first of two volumes revised and expanded from the original Colonization Chronical. This volume follows teenager Ricky Cruz and his family as they migrate from their successful farm to be first wave settlers on the newly terraformed planet Murna. Ricky becomes part of the crew as a repair technician and shuttle pilot. Plagued with problems from the start, Ricky begins investigating the source of the problems and discovers their ship has been deliberately sabotaged in an attempt to prevent them from being the first settlers on their new home, therefore preventing ...

How can a colony on Mars survive when the greatest danger on the planet is humanity itself. All contact is lost with the first human colony on Mars during a long, intense sandstorm. Satellite imagery of the aftermath shows extensive damage to the facility, and the fifty-four colonists who called it home are presumed dead. Three years later, a new mission sets down on the planet surface to investigate what remains of the derelict site.

Pyre's humans suffer multiple cultural shocks. They discovered the Messinants dome, an ancient construction that houses a quantum-coupled gate. More shocking, they find that sentient alien races utilize a network of these domes to journey between their far distant worlds in pursuit of alliance matters. If humans wish to join this elite collection of sentients, they must contribute significantly in trade, tech, or something of equal value.

To graduate high school, Gabe must pass one final hurdle: Shakespeare. Gabe is no fan of poetry. His literary hero, Don Quixote, tilts at windmills. Now English lab sends him to Elizabethan England to experience Shakespeare and the Renaissance firsthand. Lesson one: William Shakespeare is a pen name. The real author is Edward de Vere, Earl of Oxford. Still, Gabe is surprised by an eight-year-old brat. Impervious to verse, instead he is drawn into the rich pageantry of Edward’s times. Annoyance grows into friendship while they share the real-life adventures that colored the earl’s ...

A dead man's quest is never over. Zane Lucas inherits more than his wildest dreams from a man he's never met. The same week, a mysterious cluster of drones appears before him during a random border patrol. Who sent them in the first place? Earth's alliance with the Gral is on the brink of collapse. The forty-three colonies are under duress, and an unknown entity is coming for them.

Young Gabe travels through time and space, reliving history in virtual reality, as he trains to lead a viable space colony. Gabe leaves Earth to colonize last-chance planet Rayas. The space colony is funded by Mexican descendants of California’s El Grande – the Big One. The expedition bootstraps its terraforming talent from teenagers. Their flexible minds will spend the interstellar years of stasis in a virtual reality academy. But Gabe’s a physical guy. Cast among genius, what can he aspire to? History captures his imagination. Unlike home, air is breathable under a clean blue sky, ...

Earth is completely uninhabitable. The last two-thousand humans living in the solar system, inhabit a colony on the red planet: Mars. With only a few weeks to live on Mars, colonists become increasingly aware of their imminent deaths. Upon exhausting every rational means to survive, they desperately turn to one, last effort; they create a beacon which calls out to the universe for help.After completing the beacon, the colonists are left with many questions. Did their calls reach anyone? If so, who? And, will their rescuers save them or kill them?The Doomed Colony is the fifth novel in the ...

All that remains of human civilization is a fledgling colony on Concordia, a planet light years from Earth. Infighting and disaster dogged the colony’s earliest days, but through the determination and bravery of a few individuals, the remnants of humankind have clung to existence. One of the grittiest of these characters is Cherry Lindstrom. A farmer turned freedom fighter, she helped to lead the generational colonists’ rebellion. Now she must travel to the Galactic Assembly and persuade the leading powers to accept humans into their alliance.

Fighting for the Colony is the first of two volumes revised and expanded from the original Keeping the Colony. This volume follows Ricky as he defends against an interstellar empire. Ricky and his girlfriend Edin have both been medically tested and proven to be adults, so now they are engaged, and Ricky provides Edin the full ability to determine when she will become pregnant. With a triple birth underway in the specially prepared birthing suite in his house, Ricky invites his Grammy and Edin’s immediate family to visit Murna using a secret, rapid method he has recently developed. He ...

The French Foreign Legion is one of the most feared combat units of the 22nd century. Taking the rogues, thieves and misfits of Earth and the colonized worlds, and forging them into an elite fighting force through harsh discipline and regimental pride. The backwater French mining colony of New Strasbourg lies dozens of light-years from Earth. A remote world where third-rate bureaucrats lead an easy life while the miners struggle and die to make aristocrats rich back home. Until the colonists rebel in a brutal insurgency, and fight the local militia to a standstill. Now it's twenty-year-old ...

Exploring New Earth should be a thrilling undertaking. Instead, the more the colonists learn about the planet, the more alarmed they become. Alien ruins hint at a species who fought great wars among themselves and disappeared centuries ago. When Connor Gates discovers a hidden bunker, he finds something he never expected. Everything the colonists have learned about New Earth’s previous inhabitants is wrong. Connor must race to unravel the mystery. The colonists must face the possibility that they are not alone and that New Earth was never theirs for the taking.

Earth builds her first war fleet! The greatest warships ever constructed in known space rise up one by one, soon dominating our skies. They strike fear into the hearts of every citizen and rebel colonist alike. Captain William Sparhawk, the very man who convinced the secretive Council to build this terrifying fleet, now has doubts about the project. What is their exact mission? How could anyone have built these huge ships so quickly? And, most puzzling of all, what's happening out at the isolated laboratory complex on Phobos, Mars' lopsided moon?

As war breaks out among the colonies, a huge ship appears over the UPP mining planet Shānmén, releasing a horror that yields hideous transformations. Rescue is too far away, and the colonists’ only hope appears in the form of the vessel Righteous Fury. It carries the Jackals—an elite mix of former Colonial Marines and Royal Marines. Led by Zula Hendricks, the Jackals seek to rescue the few survivors from the depths of the planet, but have they arrived on time?

The adventure of the android Pi continues in the far future as Pi is reactivated to save humanity once again. This time Earth has lost contact with its very first colony on another planet. When contact from the rescue team that was sent to the colony ends as well, Pi, Bridget, and DAT along with an elite group of soldiers are sent as a last effort to find out what happened to the colony. In this adventure of discovery and suspense Pi must solve mysteries and face dangers even an android could never imagine. As Pi unravels the threads of the colony's mystery it leads to a place she never ...

Founding the Colony is the second of two volumes revised and expanded from the original Colonization Chronical. This volume follows Ricky and his family after they reach Murna after overcoming seemingly impossible system and component failures to their ship, while escaping two separate piratical attacks. One of the first colonists to step foot on his new planets, he immediately begins establishing his farmstead with his girlfriend Edin. Using technology he has developed Ricky is able to communicate directly with his Grammy back on Earth. He is concerned the ansible network may be ...

Summer has come to Niflheim. The lichens are growing, the six-winged bat-things are chirping, and much to his own surprise, Mickey Barnes is still alive—that last part thanks almost entirely to the fact that Commander Marshall believes that the colony’s creeper neighbors are holding an antimatter bomb, and that Mickey is the only one who’s keeping them from using it. Mickey’s just another colonist now. Instead of cleaning out the reactor core, he spends his time these days cleaning out the rabbit hutches. It’s not a bad life. It’s not going to last.

When half of mankind revolts and demands more opportunity, those at the top decide on a compromise: They will build the first colony ships and allow the rest to discover new worlds and start over. Twelve ships are built. The first is called the Orion. Many are eager to go, but only 100,000 are chosen for each vessel. Far from Earth, a new life awaits, and it promises the prosperity they've always wanted. But still, resistance stirs.