It's 0830 hours, July 4th, 1976. The Quest blasts into orbit and rendezvous with NASA’s experimental Nuclear Thermal Rocket. Quest’s mission: To take its three-man-crew on a dangerous and unparalleled journey... to Mars.A 5000 word short story by the author of the best-selling Saiph series, PP Corcoran.

The Omega War is in full swing. Earth has fallen to General Peepo's army, and the surviving Human mercenaries have taken refuge at the hidden Winged Hussars' base in New Warsaw.As humanity begins to think about how to recover the planet, one thing is obvious—more powerful weapons of war will be needed in the effort. One of the keys to recapturing Earth will be the Raknar of Cartwright's Cavaliers, but the power sources of many of the giant mecha have become unusable over the course...

The TDF Marco Polo embarks on its maiden voyage outside Earth's Solar System leading to the discovery of an extinct civilisation destroyed by orbital bombardment. Deep underground is a mysterious library of alien secrets.The Terran Republic unravels the clues, forcing its politicians, scientists, navy and marines to engage in an epic journey of space exploration, space battles and combat behind enemy lines. They must rally their forces to defend the Earth as they discover ...

The titanic struggle for control of the stars reaches its bloody conclusion in the final chapter of the bestselling Saiph Series.With their puppet race "The Others" defeated, and imprisoned on a world surrounded by warships and heavily armed orbital fortresses, the ruthless regime of the Saiph are forced to face the combined might of the Commonwealth Union of Planets.Meanwhile, the Empire of Alona has secretly grown its forces and, in a twist of fate, made ...

The Commonwealth rise triumphant over the merciless "Others." The war is over. Pioneers of the Commonwealth race to colonize virgin worlds but do not foresee the chilling Turak with their clear communiqué, "Do not enter Turak space!"Without warning, a deadly offensive is launched on the planet Balat, shattering the fragile uneasy truce between the Alonans and the Commonwealth as blame is wrongly attributed. The prospect of galactic war looms once more. Meanwhile, the orchestrator w...

Humanity, previously dependent on the K'Tai for its Redlazore, discovers vast resources of the most valuable mineral in the galaxy on Agate and is now free to expand across the stars: Redlazore is also the key component to faster-than-light travel.The planet Agate is, however, the human colony-world which lies perilously close to the K'Tai Imperium, and the K'Tai resolve to put the upstart humans back in their place.The K'Tai Imperium invades Agate.On the ground, in...

The Commonwealth Union of Planets begin their mission to the Saiph Worlds. To seek out their genetic cousins cited in the alien database, to unravel the secrets of their enemy and exploit any weakness.The "Others" capture The Happy Wanderer and her precious navigation system. The Union's future flounders as they're fatally exposed to a catastrophic betrayal at the hands of the Alonian Empire.The highly decorated Admiral John Radford begins to turn the tide. He leads the Com...

Peacemakers. The Galactic Union's most capable enforcers and resolute negotiators, their name alone elicits fear and awe among the Union's citizenry.While the occupation of Earth continues, MinSha mercenaries under the command of Major General Drehnayl have assaulted Human-held colonies in the outer rim, wiping them out completely. With the famed Four Horsemen nowhere to be found, the Mercenary Guild's attempt to instill fear and subvert humanity is perilously close to reality. Tas...

Peacemakers. The Galactic Union's most capable enforcers and resolute negotiators, their name alone elicits fear and awe among the Union's citizenry. When necessary, the Peacemaker Guild deputizes citizens to carry out special missions of great difficulty and danger.The only person ever to land a Combat Assault System, Personal (CASPer) from high-altitude free fall without a parachute, Tara Mason's career as a mercenary showed promise, but it crumbled under poor choices and even wo...

When Todd's critically damaged ship dropped out of hyperspace near the Human colony world of Azure, he had no memory of his past. He didn't know who he was, or even what he was, and the Humans didn't either. That didn't stop the colonists of Azure—they took him in, anyway…even though they didn't understand how he could do some of the things he could do.Todd and his descendants consider themselves Human—eight armed and water-breathing—but Human, nonetheless. After seventy y...

The tides of war have shifted, and humanity has the Galactic Union on the run.After a stunning victory at the Merc Guild shipyard of Golara, the leaders of the Four Horsemen mercenary units of Earth have decided it's time to take back the colonies the Merc Guild has captured, and the Horsemen split up to liberate them.While the Merc Guild still has humanity outnumbered, Alexis Cromwell, the leader of the Winged Hussars, has incorporated the ships captured in Golara into her...

The Omega War is in full swing. Earth has fallen to General Peepo's army, and the surviving Human mercenaries have taken refuge at the hidden Winged Hussars' base in New Warsaw.On Earth, the defensive forces fight to keep the hearts and minds of their fellow Humans, but Peepo's plans are slowly converting the people to her way of thinking, and the Mercenary Guild troops continue to root out the forces arrayed against them.Outnumbered and on the run, the situation is bleak, ...