Kaelen Voss wanted nothing more than to spend his life fixing machines. Instead, the Terran Legion came for him.Ripped from his job on a Rim colony by a mandatory conscription sweep, Kaelen is processed, implanted, and shipped to the Crucible — an orbital training station built to turn civilians into drop troopers. His new reality: a neural interface drilled into the base of his skull, a two-and-a-half-metre powered exoskeleton that can kill him as easily as protect him, and a dril...

PFC Kaelen Voss survived Veridia Secundus. Now he's being dropped into something far worse.Carthax Prime is an Omega-class operation — 200,000 civilians, a Tier-5 hive, and a city consumed by the Swarm. Operation IRONSPIRE was supposed to be decisive. Instead, it becomes a brutal lesson in what command decisions cost the men and women on the ground.With his squad fighting through the ruins of an infested urban world, Kaelen must go deeper into the hive than any Drop Trooper...

Corporal Kaelen Voss has survived two drops. He thought he understood the war. Verath's Reach changes everything. Beyond the frontier, on a world with no surviving civilians and no recorded Swarm activity, Team Saber finds something the Terran Legion was not prepared for — a Tier-6 hive unlike anything in the classification system. No attack. No aggression. Just a signal, repeating, precise, impossible to ignore. The Swarm is trying to say something. And someone at the top of the Legion al...

They said there were no monsters. But there are. It is the 23rd Century. Across the cold void of space, alien monsters prey on humanity: infesting generation-ships, destroying colonies, and transforming humans into hosts for their foul spoor. From the insectoid hive-beasts of Klaatu, to the xenomorphic parasites of the outer rim, this book contains the sum total of human knowledge of the myriad forms of alien menace; where to find them…and how to kill them. In this guide you will find deta...

The Aletheans are a race dedicated to the exploration of the Milky Way galaxy in search of planets like their own.Candidate 11 is one such planet. Survey vessel A-327 was dispatched, and over the decades that followed, her crew studied the primitive world, waiting for the indigenous species to reach atomic realisation.When disaster strikes the Alethean home world, the Controller of A-327 is left with only one option to save his dying people. One thing stands in his way: an ...

Falcon company lands on the planet, Pl5, joining the battle to defeat Harcus’ armies, ones that have taken over this entire world.

Seran is a scout fighting on a distant planet in the ongoing war between robots and humans. When a battleship falls, an errant process compels her to fight through the human forces and rescue a survivor. Although she sustains heavy damage, she is drawn to the dying robot. Her attraction leads her away from the protocols of machine society, and to the horizon of evolution.

The third entry into the New York Times bestselling series, To Challenge Heaven brings another thrilling adventure from the masters of military science fiction, David Weber and Chris Kennedy.In a universe teeming with predators, humanity needs friends. And fast.We've come a long way in the forty years since the Shongairi attacked Earth, killed half its people, and then were driven away by an alliance of humans with the other

2040: Ruins of ancient civilization uncovered on Mars reveal startling truths about the creation of humankind.2042: In the gray dust of the Earth's Moon, an extinct enslaving race left behind more answers, more questions...and a grim warning.2067: As Earth's warring factions clash in space for scraps of alien technology, a strange artifact lies trapped beneath the ice-locked oceans of Europa: a machine that holds the key to the final human destiny.It is called "The ...

Counter Sniper aims to reduce the damage caused by a sniper, which can often be very harmful. The individual who shoots at police, firemen, soldiers or citizens is certainly dangerous. In order to counteract, it is necessary to train individuals whose knowledge and skills fall within the description of a sniper, but who are known as Counter snipers. This handbook provides the crucial information in the selection of the right equipment, preparation, training, and the decisive actions of the...

For more than a century, Winged Hussars has been the richest of Earth's mercenary companies, as well as the only one to specialize in space warfare. Led by Alexis Cromwell, they have carved out a reputation in the galaxy for being dependable, unflappable, and lethally efficient. Until people began shooting at them everywhere they went.Rick Culper left Earth in the hopes of finding a job as a merc. A natural at fighting in the armed suits known as CASPers, he finally caught on with ...

A doctor must find a diagnosis to save an alien species from extinction in this "splendid series" of science fiction adventures ( Kirkus Reviews).The empathic insectoid surgeon Dr. Prilicla, a veteran of the galaxy's top-tier hospital for years, is put in command of an expedition answering three distress beacons. What he finds is two hitherto-unknown intelligent species, one of which has nearly wiped out the other. And he also finds evidence of a botched fi...