As the human Commonwealth slides towards war with the alien fanatics of the K'Soth Empire, two archaeologists follow a trail of clues to a barren backward planet between the two belligerent powers that point to ancient, forgotten conflicts and mysterious alien technology. As darkness descends; ancient and terrible secrets are about to be uncovered.

It is two years since the events of 'Exiles, Book One of the Progenitor Trilogy'.Humiliated in defeat, the K'Soth Empire has finally collapsed into civil war amongst the noble houses and now the Commonwealth stands victorious over its old enemy.Vast swathes of territory have been liberated from the alien oppressors and humanity struggles with the post-war burden of restoring order and rebuilding.But another war is being fought in the shadows. Admiral Michelle Chen, ...

The Commonwealth stands on the brink.As war engulfs the worlds of man, the Shapers are poised to strike at the very heart of human civilisation. The men and women of the Commonwealth Navy now find themselves at the forefront of a desperate battle for the very survival of the species against an enemy whose weapons and technology far exceed their own.Whilst the conflict rages, the Arkari plot their revenge. Stunned by the Shapers' savage assault on their worlds, they lick thei...

The invasion has begun. K'Soth forces now strike deep within Commonwealth space seizing world after world and killing or enslaving all in their path.Despite their brave attempt to defend New Colorado Station from the K'Soth attack, the Commonwealth Navy has been forced to retreat. As they regroup in the Niflheim system, Admiral Rylance formulates a plan to blunt the Imperial invasion by mounting an audacious defence. But first she must lure the enemy fleet into a trap.Withi...

It is half a century before the events of The Progenitor Trilogy.The newly formed Commonwealth has united the disparate colonies of humanity into one interstellar union. After making first contact with the ancient and sophisticated Arkari, mankind has discovered that the galaxy is teeming with life. A new pioneering age of prosperity, discovery and progress now beckons.Yet already the Commonwealth is imperilled. The rush to the stars has created undreamed of wealth for some...

The Commonwealth's attempt to negotiate with the K'Soth Empire has failed.Dr Marcus Cuvier is missing, presumed killed by the Emperor's hand along with most of his delegation, and now the Imperial security forces search for the last few survivors who have now become desperate fugitives amidst the vast, sprawling metropolis of the Imperial capital.Meanwhile, Admiral Rylance marshals her fleet to move against the uprising in the Commonwealth's border systems and prepares to b...

War rages between the Commonwealth and the alien empire of the reptilian K'Soth. With the conflict at its height, armies and navies clash across a hundred different systems as the two powers battle for supremacy. Meanwhile, in the shadows, other more ancient powers are stirring. Long forgotten by the younger races, they scheme and plot, seeking to manipulate the conflict to their own advantage before revealing themselves.Gathered together within this collection are four tales set a...

The Shaper War ended a decade ago, but their presence is not entirely gone from the galaxy.Rescued from the wreck of a bounty hunter's ship, Jack Wyndham finds himself aboard the independent vessel Lucretia with Captain Julius Lacerta and his crew of outcasts and rejects. They are on a mission to find their captain's one-time partner, Jennifer Ortega, who had uncovered a trail of clues to some unknown treasure of great value before she vanished.However, others are also inte...

The planet Attica has two continents: Lambda and Delta. The indigenous alien population being restricted to Delta, Earth's colony was planted on Lambda. Before the arrival of the Daedalus, two sailing ships had set out from Lambda to cross the ocean separating the two continents, and neither had returned. Now a third is on its way, and Mariel Valory and Alex Alexander of the Daedalus have hitched a lift, in order that Mariel might use her talent to try to make contact with the aliens. Unfo...

hey call them the "rat-catchers." They're the crew of the spaceship Daedalus, which a declining Earth has sent to re-establish contact with its long-lost colonies. Biologist Alex Alexander, together with his staff, must help solve the mysteries of human and alien ecosystems that they encounter far from home. On the world called Wildeblood, named for the ecologist/Emperor who founded it, the settlers' descendants harbor a terrible secret--a secret that Alex must uncover, if the colony is to...

The fourth landing of the Daedalus Mission confronts Alex and his companions with a colonial culture seemingly modeled on a classic Utopian dream, but all of its inhabitants are infected with a mysterious alien parasite, and they no longer seem entirely human. Are they being controlled by the parasite, or has the parasite merely enabled them to transform themselves? Can the visitors from Earth avoid infection themselves, and what will the consequences be if they cannot? For once, the risks...

The final contact made by the Daedalus Mission begins badly, even before the ship makes a hard landing in the middle of nowhere. The situation of the colony doesn't seem to make any sense, and neither does the situation of the indigenous aliens--the Sets--that have helped the colony survive and thrive. Alex Alexander doesn't take long to work out a hypothesis that might explain the mystery--a hypothesis that the people on the ground have already worked out for themselves--and he's fortunat...