Space Military

He'd fight an empire to save his family! When his father and crewmates are attacked and killed by a ruthless alien commander, young Galen Bray becomes the new captain of the GHOST STAR, a notorious smuggling vessel. Barely escaping capture, Galen sets out to rescue the only other survivor of the vicious attack, his sister Trem. Along the way, he discovers a mysterious people thought wiped out long ago, his family's surprising origins, and a destiny he never imagined...

The Merry Band of Pirates offered the bad guys a ceasefire. We won’t mess with them, if they don’t mess with us. Easy, right? No. The aliens chose to do things the hard way. So, the Pirates are racing around the galaxy to clean up the threat to Earth. The infant UN Navy has their own mission with the Alien Legion: Get humanity some allies in the fight. And the Ethics & Compliance Office might have to do something...ethical. Unless they can find a way around it.

Testing the limits of a mage can be a very bad idea. Bud’s been mainly sitting the Keerah War out so far. He once sent billions home across two galaxies for a day with a single errant angry thought. So he’s kept his focus on supervising the trainers of new mages. However, the war keeps drawing him in. A bit of magic here, a bit more magic there. And then they found enslaved mages, but it was a dragon thing, and not his responsibility. But genocide is another matter, and he can’t let that stand. But others can, and have, and they’re blocking him from doing what he feels is right. The...

Recently outclassed and outgunned by advanced civilizations, the Coalition embarks on an unprecedented program to develop new weapons. A crisis emerges when mercenaries hijack convoys of vital materials. Mikal Rush, a junior lieutenant in a local defense squadron, is chosen to infiltrate the mercenaries to discover who is behind the attacks. As a child, Rush was found roaming the streets of Mermak. His lack of societal markers and piloting skills make him the ideal choice for the dangerous mission. Rush is joined by Ensign Plia Salkey, a Wylin Ensign with comparable skills who is equally ...

Colonel Joe Bishop made a promise and he's going to keep it; taking the captured alien starship Flying Dutchman back out. He doesn't agree when the UN decides to send almost 70 elite Special Operations troops, hotshot pilots, and scientists with him; the mission is a fool's errand he doesn't expect to ever return from. At least, this time, the Earth is safe, right? Not so much.

Lieutenant Bannon and his phalanx of Corvanite warriors have already seen some of the worst that the irregular war between the reptilian otuchans and the human latecomers can offer. Or so they think. First Sergeant Draven, trying to hold his company of Zolarian citizen soldiers together, has been on the desolate planet of Zhogalgan longer than Bannon. He's seen even more. Yet while they are both there as peacekeepers, they are not there to help each other.

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.

After a series of victories, the Imperial forces are on the back foot once more. The power of Chaos is rising, the Traitors gain ground, and all hope seems lost. Can Terra endure?

For Orenthal James Farmholder, the universe was meant to be a place of quiet wonder. On the sheltered agricultural world of Ceres Prime, his hands knew the intricate rhythms of hydroponic farms, while his mind soared on the smuggled poetry and forgotten science of a lost Earth. He was a boy who could coax life from engineered soil and see a symphony in the flow of water and light. But the galaxy he dreamed of was a beautiful, fragile lie, and the real universe, the one of iron and blood, was coming for him. When the hulking warship Devastator blots out his sun, Oren’s peaceful world is ...

Sophie, a young woman burdened by oaths and family ties, finds herself caught in the crossfire of a brutal interplanetary war. When her brother, a renowned general, defies their king over a captured noblewoman, Sophie must navigate a treacherous path between loyalty and rebellion. As the conflict escalates, Sophie's unique bond with the Jupiter Coalition, an enigmatic peacekeeping force, becomes her only hope for survival. But with hidden agendas and betrayals at every turn, she must forge her own destiny amidst the chaos of war. In a world where technology reigns supreme and honor is a ...

What do you do when the jungle claims everything? You unleash the galactic locusts! The fledgling Imperium is hard pressed, and Jon Hunter knows it. With the firepower to destroy all life on a world, the Imperium still must deal with only having enough ships to hold the Trixone tide back from their own space. Allies become Imperium members, but it’s not enough. Jon knows where to get all the help they need, but is it worth the downsides? To blunt the tidal wave of lethal plants, you need to unleash a locust. But the time line shift undid everything they’d previous accomplished, and now ...

They never wanted to get involved. Captain Riker has finally left Starfleet and is hoping to make it rich as a merchant astronaut, flying his ship the Phantom 500. Space is not a safe place, though. There are Lycans still lurking after the end of the Mars Wars and then there is the corrupt Starfleet. However, Riker and his crew are about to find that there are many more surprises that space has to offer that are about to determine the fate of Earth itself. He is joined on the Phantom 500 by his blue haired pilot, Aurora, and a huge hulking alien, Kakura. Together they are trying to import ...

After a fateful expedition to Antarctica, Alexander Hawkes finds himself catapulted across the stars into a galaxy in chaos. The Emperor is assassinated. The Eternum Empire, already fading, has collapsed. But he has a starship now. And friends. Alongside a crew of unlikely allies—Ban Tarro, an honorable Barundi soldier; Diliseth, a genetically-engineered Nacendo handmaiden; and Four, a sentient AI—Alexander witnesses the brutal aftermath of imperial collapse on the planet Twilight. Driven by an innate sense of justice, Alexander proposes a radical solution.

Afterwards, Basil Castellan was always certain that it had all begun the day he'd been rescued by the dragon. Oh, it hadn't been a real dragon, of course, or so he hastily assured everyone to whom he told the story. Only...it had been a real dragon....The Empire had preserved peace and order throughout human-inhabited space, but it had grown weak with the passing of the centuries, and now the self styled New Humans were rising in open rebellion, striving to seize control and impose their fanatical grand design on all humans everywhere.

From the dawn of space exploration to the formation of the U.S. Space Force, U.S. Space Force - Guardians of the High Frontier provides a comprehensive and engaging look at how space has become the ultimate frontier for national security. In this insightful and meticulously researched book, readers will journey through the geopolitical and technological milestones that led to the establishment of America’s newest military branch—the U.S. Space Force. The narrative begins with the Cold War, where space was first recognized as a strategic domain, and traces the development of space-based ...

After saving the world many times, the Merry Band of Pirates have accepted the inevitable: Earth is doomed. All they can do is try to bring a few thousand people to safety, before vicious aliens arrive to destroy humanity's home world. No. There is one other thing they can do: hit the enemy so hard that the aliens will regret they ever heard of humans.

The Warmaster’s horde advances through the fire and ash of Terra's dying breaths, forcing the loyalists back to the Delphic Battlement—the very walls of the Sanctum Imperialis. Angron, Primarch of the World Eaters and Herald of Horus, has achieved immortality through annihilation—now he leads the armies of the damned in a wrathful tide, destroying all before them as the warp begins its poisonous corruption of Terra's very soil.

Shri Gusway's world is upended when Marv Rinal reveals the secret of his heritage. Rinal professes his love for Gusway and asks her to become his partner. If she accepts, she must live on his homeworld of Baen, leaving Vanguard and the life she always wanted. Gusway chafes in Rinal's world of privilege and protocol but is driven by her love. Baen is gripped by social turmoil, with the future of the planetary government in doubt. Rinal's return with a Wylin partner exacerbates the divisions, giving his family's critics a new target to focus their anger on. When the couple embarks on a tour ...

Staff Sergeant Gracie Medicine Crow, United Federation Marine Corps, is the Marine's top sniper. It the mission is too dangerous or difficult to pull off, she's the choice to get it done. Even deep inside enemy territory, killing the target might be the easiest part of the mission. When you kick a hornets' nest, the hornets get angry. Getting herself and her a-gunner out and back to friendly forces might just be a bridge too far. This is the latest Gracie Medicine Crow story. Other Gracie works include the novel "Sniper" and the novelettes "BOLO Mission, "High-Value Target," and the 2018 ...

Kai Fletcher thought he could go straight, until he couldn’t. And when his last "last" job goes wrong, he finds himself stowed away in a starship belonging to an alien crime syndicate. Forced into servitude to pay the debt for passage off world, Kai bargains with the syndicate. All he has to do is help them rob the Vakness Empire, the most powerful alien empire in known space, and he gets to go home. Easy Peasy. Until it isn’t.