He needs a payday. He’ll settle for payback.Betrayed and left to rot on the edges of the galaxy, Caspian Robeaux is deep in debt and stuck flying courier missions in an old rustbucket he can barely keep afloat. His only friends are an annoying robot named Box and a bottle of booze.It’s a far cry from his once-promising military career, but Cas stopped caring a long time ago.Things start to look up, though, when a stranger arrives and offers a lucrat...

Seven years ago he was betrayed and left for dead. Now he’s looking for payback.On the edge of known space, something disturbing is amassing. Reports from the Sovereign Coalition’s largest telescopes that show a swarm of ships thousands of light-years away. The threat is real, and it looks like it’s headed for the inner Coalition planets. The people of the Coalition have little more than a year if they’re lucky.While the Admiralty scrambles to come up with ...

This study develops a methodology for rapidly obtaining approximate estimates of the economic consequences from numerous natural, man-made and technological threats. This software tool is intended for use by various decision makers and analysts to obtain estimates rapidly. It is programmed in Excel and Visual Basic for Applications (VBA) to facilitate its use. This tool is called E-CAT (Economic Consequence Analysis Tool) and accounts for the cumulative direct and indirect impacts (includi...

The war began six hundred years after she died…and five years before she came back.In the far-flung future, an unknown alien species appears, determined to wipe out humanity. The Solar Union, in making a last-ditch effort to save billions of lives on dozens of different planets, retrieves the soldiers they need from those who’ve died over the past six hundred years.Lilah is no soldier. In fact, she hates the concept of war. But it’s either fight, or go back...

Trying Times Ahead.The crew of the USCS Tempest may have escaped near death near the Excel Nebula, but their journey is just beginning.As Caspian tries to find his place among the crew on their journey to unknown space, Evie is haunted by ghosts of her past. Both of them will have to work together if they want to find out what's going on with the threat known only as Andromeda.Meanwhile, light years beyond where any Coalition ship has ever ventured,...

It was just supposed to be one job. But once the Coalition has you, they never let go…Caspian Robeaux thought his troubles were over when he disrupted the Coalition’s plans and the person who had betrayed him found himself behind bars.But life is rarely so simple.Now the Coalition has a new mission for him, one that takes him right back into the heart of the enemy who helped cost him his freedom.The question is, can he step up to the challen...

Beyond the Edge Things get Weird.Having barely survived their encounter with the mysterious race known only as Andromeda, the crew of the USCS Tempest now must find a way to repair the ship if they ever want to get back to the Coalition to warn them of what’s coming. Their comms are down, their engines are shot and unless the god Kor himself makes an appearance, they’ll have to rely on local help if they want a way out of this mess.But finding fr...

The Beginning of The End.After their harrowing trials on the mysterious planet out of time, the crew of the USCS Tempest have been reunited. Though they have taken heavy losses. And yet, in some ways things are better than when they left. Despite all their sacrifices, they must return to Coalition space in pursuit of the Athru fleet. Only, what could be left after all this time…Evelyn Diazal, once a respected commander and former captain of the s...

He tried to bury it. But some things refuse to stay hidden.Having survived his encounter with the mysterious Sil race, Caspian and the crew of the USCS Tempest receive a new assignment: investigate the threat emerging far beyond the Coalition’s borders. With its advanced engines, Tempest is the only ship fast enough to reach whatever is out there before they cross into Coalition territory.But just because Cas is part of the mission now doe...

Stranded.The crew of the USCS Tempest has faced many hardships, but none so dire as crashing on a planet with no way to contact their ship. Now with no power, no resources and no idea how to get back, they’ll have to find a way to survive on this strange, untamed world.But not all is as it seems. This planet hides some dark secrets, such as why does the sun never seem to set? Or why, despite a lush environment, are there no other species here? Ca...

The Past doesn’t easily Forgive. Or Forget.Distraught over the loss of his crewmates, Caspian Robeaux no longer believes he can pretend to be part of the crew of the USCS Tempest. He has to face the fact he’s become an outsider and that’s who he’ll always be. He has no place on a Coalition starship anymore. But the mission must continue and until it’s complete, he’s stuck on board. Will he find a way to cope, or will the ghosts of his mistakes drive him ...

Everything Comes at a Cost.The Coalition has been decimated. While humanity teeters on the edge of survival, the crew of the USCS Tempest may be their only hope. But things may have just gone from bad to worse.Upon arriving back at the planet she grew up on, Evie discovers a secret that throws everything she’s known about herself into question. A lone Athru greets her there, revealing a special connection to Evie and offers to help defeat her own people. But to C...