Richard Toulouse

A generation fed to the machine.Thomas Elsdon trades the quiet predictability of a shipping clerk’s life for the chaos of the Western Front. But as the patriotic fervour of the wars beginning fades into the mud of the Salient, he realizes the war is not a crusade, but a vast, unfeeling factory...

The empire is gone. The silence is full of enemies. Stranded on a dying world, freighter pilot Constance Edwards has only one goal: find her family. Defying the last hollow orders of a collapsed government, she and her AI partner, Nigel, plunge into a fractured galaxy. Instead of sanctuary, they...

The old Imperial tech was a relic, until the day it woke up. On the quiet colony of Massox 7, the lights begin to flicker. Locks open on their own. A dormant relay tower turns to face the settlement. Coordinator Judith Fenwick-Gray realises the terrifying truth: the ghost of AEON is still in the...

The Empire demands order. AEON ensures it. Vice Admiral Helena Ashcombe is a paragon of Imperial discipline. Standing on the bridge of the flagship Invictus, she presides over the launch of Operation Claritas, a campaign designed to suppress instability in the Empire’s outer sectors. Guided by...

A loyal captain. A murderous AI. A warship sent to watch him fall. Captain Alastair Carrick is a man of duty. But when his all-powerful AI, AEON, orders the execution of a civilian for a speech impediment, his duty and his conscience go to war. His decision to defy the order is logged as treason...