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After the daring rescue of a political dissident, Omega Force is contracted to investigate a rash of violent attacks on civilian shipping lanes within a group of star systems known as the Concordian Cluster. It seems a simple enough job with a huge payday at the end, and it's exactly what the ragtag group of mercenaries needs in order to keep their ship flying and to stay one step ahead of those hunting them.

Die Menschheit ist zersplittert und steht am Rande des Krieges. Die Vereinigte Terranische Föderation und die Eastern Star Alliance kämpfen seit einigen Jahren in kleinen Gefechten entlang der Grenzregion. Aber jetzt droht der Ausbruch eines Krieges, dessen Sieger die Kontrolle über den gesamten menschlichen Raumsektor übernehmen wird. Die Alliance hat mit einem schrecklichen Angriff auf ein ziviles Ziel das Feuer eröffnet, Millionen getötet und das Parlament der Föderation zum Handeln gezwungen.

Dieser Krieg war unvermeidlich.Nach zwei brutalen, blutigen Kämpfen um ihre Existenz gegen unerbittliche außerirdische Feinde ist die Menschheit siegreich, hat aber keinen Frieden gefunden. Da Misstrauen und Anschuldigungen den politischen Diskurs zwischen den beiden großen Gruppierungen vergiften, hat das Militär der Eastern Star Alliance bereits begonnen, kleine Überfälle in den Raum der Vereinigten Terranischen Föderation durchzuführen.

Die Darshik-Offensive lässt nach, aber der Krieg ist noch lange nicht vorbei. Während sich die erschöpften Einheiten der Föderation nach der Abwehr der letzten Invasion der Darshik auf einen Gegenangriff vorbereiten, gibt es Berichte über eine neue, mächtigere Schiffsklasse, die tief in den terranischen Raum eindringt.

First Lieutenant Jacob Brown von den Marines langweilt sich. Seit Monaten sitzt er auf einem fremden Planeten herum und wartet auf den Rückrufbefehl für sein Scout-Team, das sich ausruhen soll und dann neu ausgerüstet würde. Auf der vorherigen Mission musste das Team durch die Hölle gehen und verlor sowohl den Kommandeur als auch sein Schiff. Momentan übernimmt Jacob die Rolle des Kommandeurs von Team Obsidian, und ihr Schiff ist ein altes, ramponiertes Kampf-Shuttle, das sie von Drogenschmugglern auf dem Planeten Niceen-3 gestohlen haben.

Er war unberechenbar, da er Befehle missachtete und seine eigenen Missionsziele verfolgte. Sein Scout-Team war von den Vorgesetzten verleugnet worden, und der Besitzer des gestohlenen Schiffs, das er flog, wollte es zurückhaben. Noch komplizierter war die Tatsache, dass der Mann, dem Jacob das Schiff entwendet hatte, ein berüchtigter Söldner namens Jason Burke war ... sein Vater.

Außerirdische existieren...und es stellt sich heraus, dass die meisten von ihnen nicht freundlich sind. Als sie das erste Mal die Erde angriffen, war Jacob Brown noch nicht einmal geboren. Beim zweiten Mal war er vierzehn. Als die Erde endlich ihre erste vereinte Raumflotte aufstellte, meldete sich Jacob sofort freiwillig. An Bord eines mächtiges Raumschiffs könnte er seinen Planeten–und seine Familie–verteidigen, wenn die Aliens zurückkehrten.

The ConFed has ruled the galactic quadrant for nearly two thousand years. During that time a relative peace has been kept by threat of force from their mighty fleet. But as with all things, their dominance must come to an end. Now that the ConFed is crumbling and their fleet is withdrawing back to the Core Worlds, the strong are once again preying on the weak. In the border regions, trafficking rings have popped up alongside the refugee pipelines making the journey for new colonists a treacherous one.

The United Terran Federation is on the brink of collapse after a devastating attack by the Eastern Star Alliance that has left four planets depopulated and uninhabitable. Terrified member worlds are fleeing from the Federation and the remnant of their once-mighty fleet has retreated to the last place they are welcome: Earth. Out of options and time, the Federation turns to Admiral Jackson Wolfe and his new superweapon that could be the key to turning the tide of the war in their favor. Admiral Wolfe knows that no matter what, the fate of humanity will be decided in the coming battle.

The United Terran Federation and the Eastern Star Alliance have been fighting in minor skirmishes along the border region for the last few years, but now it threatens to break out into a full-on war with the victor assuming control of all human space.

A new killer is cutting a bloody swath through the frontier worlds. Rumors of its exploits are spreading and, like a ghost, nobody even knows what it looks like. Captain Jason Burke and his crew watch this growing menace with a mix of unease...and guilt. They know who this killer is. He used to be one of them.

The Machine - a terrifying and relentless enemy - reigns supreme in the galaxy, and the real fight is just beginning. Omega Force keenly feels the weight of responsibility for the Machine's arrival in the quadrant, but even with the resources of the Blazing Sun organized crime syndicate backing them, there's only so much the small mercenary crew can do against the malevolent AI that has already usurped control of most of the government. The Machine is now firmly in control of the ConFed's military.

The quadrant is on the brink of all-out civil war, but almost nobody knows it. Now that he knows a malevolent AI that calls itself the Machine has seized much of the ConFed's military apparatus and even controls the Grand Adjudicators themselves, Jason Burke must decide if he risks picking a fight with such an overmatched enemy, or if he runs to hide and fight another day. Omega Force needs allies, and needs them quickly.

After two brutal, bloody struggles for their very existence against implacable alien foes, humanity is victorious, but not at peace. As distrust and accusations consume the political discourse between the two major factions, the Eastern Star Alliance military has already begun executing small raiding missions into United Terran Federation space. The Federation fleet, still reeling from the last war, is in no shape to try and protect its own borders.

The members of the Polaris Project knew what they were giving up when they volunteered to fly to the star named Angel-21, but the allure of being the first explorers to leave the Solar System far outweighed the risks. As it turned out, the most dangerous thing they faced wasn't the mission, it was the homecoming. Eight hundred years have passed, and Earth is nothing like they thought it would be.

The Darshik war machine is flagging, but the war is far from over. Even as an exhausted Federation military tenses up for a counterattack after repelling the last Darshik invasion, reports are coming in of a new, more powerful class of ship that's striking deep into Terran space. Captain Jackson Wolfe has been given the fleet's newest, most advanced destroyer and tasked with eliminating this new threat before it can claim any more human lives. What he finds, however, is immeasurably more dangerous than just some new class of starship....

The Federation's military command is desperate, and with their fleet still in tatters, they make a last-ditch effort to free the planet: They pull Captain Jackson Wolfe out of retirement and put him in command of a ship they hope can get past the defending armada and provide support to the beleaguered Marines and civilians fighting on the surface of the contested world. There is no reasoning with this enemy. If the Terran Federation wants their planet back, they will have to pay the price.

The Phage War had been a devastating conflict for the Terran Confederacy. Even with the destruction of their terrifying, implacable foe, humanity is still reeling. Political alliances are crumbling, and their mighty fleet is in tatters. There is nothing to celebrate, even after such a complete victory. They soon learn that there are other stellar neighbors - and they've been watching the conflict with great interest. One species comes with an offer of friendship and alliance, but humanity is weary and distrustful.

Captain Jackson Wolfe never thought he'd see the end of the Phage War in his lifetime. The enemy was too powerful, too numerous, and utterly determined to exterminate humanity. But the appearance of a new ally in the fight has changed all of that. For the first time since the original incursion, Wolfe thinks that maybe there's a chance to stop their implacable enemy before they have the chance to wipe out any more human planets.

From Joshua Dalzelle comes the follow-up to the number-one best seller Warship. Captain Jackson Wolfe survived the initial incursion of a vicious alien species into human space...barely. He had assumed the juggernaut that had devastated three Terran systems was the herald for a full invasion, but for the last few years it has been eerily quiet along the Frontier. Jackson now struggles to convince the Confederate leadership the threat is still imminent and needs to be taken seriously.