Resultados para "Space Opera" en Guerra y ejército

Después de años de encierro planetario, los dioses han escapado de su cárcel y, con su huida, una nueva guerra amenaza el Cosmos. Esta emocionante novela de ciencia ficción espacial nos traslada a la vida de varios personajes, cada uno con sus objetivos y sus deseos, cuyas acciones se verán afectadas por los hilos del destino. La acción trepidante de la novela llevará a sus personajes a vivir persecuciones, batallas espaciales, criaturas extrañas y una guerra en ciernes que cambiará el Cosmos entero.

Jake Adlar's goals in life were simple—possibly nonexistent. All he wanted was to fly a desk. Hence, he'd joined the Space Force, the service with the most extensive array of Earth-side clerical specialties. All he needed to make him happy was an office, a computer, his favorite coffee mug, and a never-ending pile of requisitions.

The insectoid alien race known as the Vitri have invaded the Imperial world of Naugh in retribution for the deal broken by Grand Admiral Aatroxiss. Doing the right thing has consequences, and by saving the Turook he has doomed another world to slaughter if the Empire can't take it back in time. Aatroxiss and his flagship, the Redemption, arrive to meet up with the Imperial forces already engaged in battle, but what the Emperor's sole Grand Admiral finds there is far more than expected.

Two Syndicate World star systems have fallen prey to a mysterious fleet of warships - a fleet controlled entirely by artificial intelligence - that is now targeting Alliance space. The warships are no mystery to Geary. They were developed by his government to ensure security but malfunctioned. If the Syndics learn the truth, the war with the Alliance will resume with a vengeance.

The Second Galactic Expeditionary Force is a mercenary corporation, fighting for whoever is willing to pay. They recruit from the galaxy’s destitute, its criminals, and loners. All are offered a new life as a GEF trooper, battling their way from one desolate planet to the next. Wrongfully accused of committing genocide against an alien species during a first contact encounter, Fleet Marine Corps Gunnery Sergeant Echo Griffith was out of options. His trial was a sham, a theater for the masses. He reluctantly accepts the offer of service with the GEF in exchange for his life.

In the three years since former fleet officer Rob Geary and former marine Mele Darcy led improvised forces to repel attacks on the newly settled world of Glenlyon, tensions have only gotten worse. When one of Glenlyon's warships is blown apart trying to break the blockade that has isolated the world from the rest of human-colonized space, only the destroyer Saber remains to defend it from another attack. Geary's decision to take Saber to the nearby star Kosatka to safeguard a diplomatic mission is a risky interpretation of his orders, to say the least.

There is a personal price to pay for having aligned with the wrong side in a reckless war. For Aden Jansen it's the need to adopt a new identity while keeping his past hidden. Now he's integrated himself aboard the Zephyr, a merchant ship smuggling critical goods through dangerous space. But danger is imminent on planet Gretia, as well. Under occupation, torn between postwar reformers and loyalists, it's a polestar for civil unrest.

The second book in the epic saga of humankind's war of transcendence In the evolution of every sentient race, there is a turning point when the species achieves transcendence through technology. The warlike Sh’daar are determined that this monumental milestone will never be achieved by the...

The third book in the epic saga of humankind's war of transcendence There is an unseen power in the universe—a terrible force that was dominating the galaxy tens of thousands of years before the warlike Sh'daar were even aware of the existence of Sol and its planets. As humankind approaches...

The first book in the epic saga of humankind's war of transcendence There is a milestone in the evolution of every sentient race, a Tech Singularity Event, when the species achieves transcendence through its technological advances. Now the creatures known as humans are near this momentous...

In the vein of the hit television show “Battlestar Galactica” comes the fourth book in this action-packed, New York Times bestselling, science fiction series in which humankind is in a vast power struggle to bring down an evil empire. 20 years after the fragile truce with the Sh’daar...

In the deepest known reaches of space, a human colonization attempt has taken a chilling turn. What Intelligence sources have reported to Union government officials has The Union military going on high alert. The race to prevent an unthinkable interstellar disaster is on—and there’s only one man who can intervene... Daniel Storm is ready to retire from military duty to be with those closest to him. When word reaches Storm about the colonization attempt, he finds himself caught up in the most dangerous military operation of his career.

2086. Die Erde ist vergiftet, die Menschheit nahezu ausgelöscht. Nur eine künstlich erschaffene Stadt am Äquator bietet den letzten Überlebenden Schutz unter einer riesigen Kuppel: die City of Seasons.

In the final days of World War II, the Allies ransacked Berlin, but they failed to capture one of the most vital members of Adolf Hitler’s inner circle. SS Obergruppenfuhrer Hans Kammler helped to engineer Auschwitz, but he was also a liaison with silent partners whose technological wonders nearly helped the Nazis win the war - the alien species the Germans called the Eidechse. More than seven decades later, US Navy SEAL Mark Hunter has witnessed the impossible, an unidentified flying object destroying a North Korean compound used to develop weapons of mass destruction. 

Trevor Gray has been stripped of his command of the starship America and is unsure what to do with his life. Having dedicated so much of himself to the service, he knew following the super-AI Konstantin’s advice could have severe consequences. He just never thought he would be out of the fight. Because that’s what Earth is in: a fight against a sinister alien force so technologically advanced that there seems little hope. That’s why he disobeyed his orders in the first place - to figure out a way to stop them. But now he’s beached.

Having battled aliens to prove humanity’s worth as a star-faring species, Admiral Trevor Gray has a new mission: follow the directives of the super-AI Konstantin and lead the star carrier America on a mission through time and space to determine if humanity can truly transcend into Singularity...and avoid the pitfalls that have plagued so many of the aliens Earth has encountered since it gained faster-than-light travel. But there are those out there who don’t want an answer, who wish to maintain their own power with the status quo.

During the peacekeeping operations in the Kosovo region of the Balkans, a group of vampires are discovered by the American forces. The report of the discovery attracts the interest of the commander of the elite and highly secretive organization; the United States Special Operations Command, who sends in his own personnel to investigate. When the General learns that the creatures actually exist, his team, led by Navy Commander John Reese, devises a method of capture and brings the vampires back to the United States.

Wo lauert der wahre Feind? Vor dieser Frage steht Caden Dechert, Leiter der amerikanischen Mondmission zum Abbau des Energielieferanten Helium-3. Im Jahre 2072 streiten fünf Großmächte um die Vorherrschaft auf dem Erdtrabanten. In der lebensfeindlichen Umgebung war die Sicherheit der Crews trotzdem stets oberstes Gebot. Doch als eine Bombe ein US-Teammitglied tötet, muss Dechert nicht nur einen Saboteur und Mörder jagen. Er muss auch einen offenen Krieg zwischen den USA und China verhindern, wenn sein Team überleben will.

Nathaniel Garro, knight errant and agent of the Sigillite, returns from the battlefields of Calth to find a new mission already waiting for him - a ragged fleet of Space Marines from several Legions lingers at the edge of the Terran system. With the presence of World Eaters and Emperor's Children causing concern among the loyalist defenders and drawing a grim parallel with his own frantic flight, Garro must look beneath the obvious if he is to determine friend from foe....