Der Angriff kam aus dem Himmel selbst. In nur zehn Minuten war die gesamte Verteidigungsflotte der Erde vernichtet. Captain Naomi Reyes wollte nie ein Kriegsschiff befehligen. Zehn Jahre lang steuerte sie Versorgungskonvois, während andere Offiziere an der Front kämpften, zufrieden damit, unauffällig zu bleiben und ihre Crew am Leben zu halten. Dann reißt ein Riss den Himmel über der Erde auf, eine außerirdische Armada strömt hindurch, und innerhalb von zehn Minuten verstummt die gesamte V...

The armada came through the sky itself. Every ship Earth had was gone in ten minutes. Captain Naomi Reyes never wanted a warship. She spent a decade running supply convoys while other officers chased the front line, content to keep her head down and her crew alive. Then a wound tears open above Earth, an alien armada pours through, and in the space of ten minutes, humanity's entire defense fleet goes silent. The battered dreadnought Meridian, a ship never meant to lead anything, is suddenl...

The Emperor has been dead for two years. Someone has been signing his name anyway. Blockade runner Reya Solari never asked for the proof. A dying archivist handed it to her with his last clear breath, along with a forty-hour head start on the one fleet in the galaxy built to make sure she never delivers it. Standing in her way is Commodore Aldric Vane, the officer ordered to erase an ancient star-gate rather than let a two-year lie finally collapse in public. If Reya fails, the last honest...