Military Opera

Although the exciting military career she hoped for never got off the ground, Ky Vatta ended up seeing plenty of combat when she took the helm of one of the commercial transport vessels in her family's fleet...and steered it into a full-blown war. Now the lessons she learned in that trial by fire are about to pay off---because this time, the war has come to her. Someone has launched a full-throttle offensive against Vatta Transport Ltd., Ky's father's interstellar shipping empire.

The first of the acclaimed Vatta's War books, the exciting military science fiction series that features a swashbuckling spaceship-captain heroine who mixes commerce with combat.

The story continues. The Brotherhood of the Light only cares about one thing, removing every single vampire from the verse. Now that they know a new threat has entered Earth Republic's space they will send their finest warriors to deal with it. Captain Drake has problems of his own. He opened the box. Never, ever, open the box.Now he has to deal with the consequences of his actions before his crew pays the ultimate price.

The Vestrall fight back, but Leviathan stands in their way. And Major Payne opens a new front in the war. His goal is nothing less than turning the Vestrall's allies against them to bring peace to the galaxy. The Vestrall exist, and they have secrets. The war will continue because it suits them. Humanity must confront the real enemy. They must win or the war will continue for another thousand years. There's only one ship that can do what needs to be done.

He just wants to run space cargo. Alien warlords want him dead - with a billion credit price on his head. Now, everyone with a gun and a spaceship wants to cash in. But, humans are not easy to kill, especially a battle hardened Marine warrior from Earth. He is angry, frustrated and uncertain about where his life is going, but knows one thing - he absolutely hates the arrogance of the wealthy elite who paid the billion credit bounty. And, he’ll make them pay with their precious, jewelry studded lives if it is the last thing he does. They thought it should be easy. After all, he is just a ...

Devi Morris isn't your average mercenary. She has plans. Big ones. And a ton of ambition. It's a combination that's going to get her killed one day - but not just yet. That is, until she gets a job on a tiny trade ship with a nasty reputation for surprises. The Glorious Fool isn't misnamed; it likes to get into trouble, so much so that one year of security work under its captain is equal to five years everywhere else. With odds like that, Devi knows she's found the perfect way to get the jump on the next part of her plan.

The A!Tol Imperium and their new human subjects have had 15 years of relative peace. New colonies have been founded, new worlds explored, new ships built. Formal and informal alliances have been built with the ancient powers of the Core, leaving humanity and the Imperium seemingly on the brink of a new dawn. The devastation of one of the newly-founded human colonies sends ripples of shock through the Imperium, and a battle fleet under Fleet Lord Harriet Tanaka is dispatched to the edge of the Imperium to find the culprits and bring them to justice.

The Blaze are getting their direction and technology from those who had driven the Progenitors from the galaxy. The Vestrall. Leviathan takes his select humans to the frontlines in Earth's war with the Blaze Collective to collect intelligence on where to find the Vestrall. The Blaze aren't forthcoming. They go farther, a thousand light-years behind enemy lines to a planet that used to be important. It's no longer the home of the Vestrall, but of a biomechanical race that is little more than drones.

Almost 400 years the Terran Imperium has languished, an Empire in name only. The young colonies exploded out of the Diaspora Era, supplanting the homeworld in importance as they left a broken world in their wake. Earth's people, guided by the Conwin line, have clawed and climbed from the darkness left the night the lights went out. They built and rebuilt the weary and weakened world they inherited, even when it seemed bent on killing them from sheer spite.

With the invading aliens temporarily driven from Human-and-NeHaw-occupied space, all the races are using the pause to recover and rebuild, both friend and foe alike. For the NeHaw, that means pressuring the Earth to allow them to rebuild and rearm their fleet from the Wawobash shipyards, a risk that could easily backfire. For Jake, the lingering concerns of a lost crew with the un-activated Artificial Life installed in the captured saucer still dominate his thoughts.

Ex-Army paratrooper Griffin “Fin” Brooks thought he left danger behind when his battlefield injuries forced him to pursue a new career in marine biology. But one fateful night off the coast of South Africa, a ship nearly crashes into him and his loyal golden retriever, Jacques. Not just any ship. A starship. Though its alien pilot is dead, the rare extraterrestrial animal inside is not. Fin learns the creature is being smuggled across the galaxy when a pair of interstellar visitors respond to the crash. But those same investigators accuse Fin and his dog of crimes he didn’t even know existed.

It has been over a year since the UnArcana Worlds of the Protectorate of the Mage-King of Mars seceded, shattering the unity of the human race. The new Republic of Faith and Reason has raised new banners in defiance of the power of the Protectorate's Mage aristocracy. Now, Hand Damien Montgomery commands a relief mission to a Republic world ravaged by famine. His humanitarian mission collides with a newborn military beginning to flex its muscles - and a newborn nation prepared to accept no violations of its sovereignty, regardless of their needs.

Captain ghost and his crew have managed to create a formidable fleet of salvage ships which has helped him establish his dominance in his business throughout galatia and lorander imperial territories. His uncanny ability for interfering with master plans of evil doers has earned him the nickname of BLUE DEMON which he lives up to till now by confronting and defeating the forces of the greatest enemy of both empires named mannek. He continues his efforts in order to unite both empires and will succeed to bring peace to both empires and in process he forges a strong bond of friendship and in ...

Following events at the Helius Blackstar, Duggan is given the Space Corps' newest warship - a heavy cruiser armed to the teeth with the latest weapons and technology. A prospector craft, the SC Lupus, has gone missing and his superiors want to find out what happened and the aggressors dealt with accordingly. The wrecked spaceship is soon found. However, nothing is as it seems. What Duggan finds on a distant planet turns everything on its head.

The Terran Confederacy of Aligned Systems has come to the defense of the Unified Civilized Species Council, moving an astounding weight of metal and troops into UCC space. With the Unified Military Council unable to withstand the Precursor Autonomous War Machines more and more local species and local system leaders are calling for assistance from the Terran Confederacy. In the Telkan System, successfully defended against the Precursor Autonomous War Machines only a year before, a new threat is unveiled as the Unified Council reveals the instruments that carry out their million year long ...

The Unified Civilized Council, which has ruled for over a hundred million years has discovered new species in the Long Dark. A strange and unknown species that seem to have no rhyme or reason about them with strange technology and hints of even more in the shadows. Compounding the problem is the reappearance of the ancient Precursor Autonomous War Machines, woken up from tens of thousands of years of offline status due to incursions into their territory. Even worse is the fact that the newly discovered Terran Confederacy of Aligned Systems appear to be the only force capable of stopping the...

War. It's as inevitable as breathing. Sometimes there are breaths between conflicts, short reprieves, and then those reprieves are shattered as war breaks out. As sons and daughters are sent out to die. As the true evils in the universe are revealed. Matthew Campbell, a young fisherman from a backwater world, finds himself thrown into the combine of war. He's tossed straight to the frontlines without any traditional military training, all he has to fall back on are the lessons from the life he is leaving. Join him as he fights to save a planet he has never been to. Read The Battle for ...

Fate had made Owen Deathstalker a rebel hero in an empire choked by tyranny. Embracing his warrior lineage for the sake of freedom, he stoked the flames of revolution, gathering the forces that one day must strike against Imperial authority. That day has come. With his valiant compatriots Hazel d'Ark and Jack Random, Owen must now bring the uprising to a fiery conclusion.

Terminal Lance Lucky Lee Savage likes his life. Sure, doing PT hungover is a pain, but no one can dodge responsibility like he can - or sweet-talk the cooks into giving out double rations.

The situation on Telkan has become desperate, the Unified Civilized Council has struck at the Terran Confederacy of Aligned Systems, their allies, and any Terran civilization they can locate. The diplomat Dreams of Something More has found herself discovering terrible secrets, and even worse things are approaching to challenge all of the players. The Cygnus-Orion Galactic Arm Spur is rapidly descending into open warfare between the Precursor Autonomous War Machines, the Unified Civilized Council, the Terran Confederacy of Aligned Systems, the Dwellerspawn, and whoever is willing to pick up ...