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Twenty years after the first blooding of Waldgrau, the forest is no longer just a battlefield—it is a memory scarred into doctrine. A Marine Special Operations Group, call-sign Graveknife, is deployed deep into a Black Forest–like world overrun by an Ork enemy that has evolved beyond brute force. These Orks do not scream blindly into fire. They stalk. They trap. They learn. Every engagement becomes a lesson paid for in blood.

The day of judgement has arrived. Chaos and devastation reign once more, but this time, they are wielded by a single man with just one goal—power. To gain it, he will do whatever it takes, no matter the cost. For the citizens of Redemption there are only two options, submit or die. The choice is an easy one for most, but some will not get to make it. Some will be struck down even before the first bullets are fired.

One day changed the world forever. Billions died. A small handful of survivors braved the apocalyptic wasteland to start again. This is their story.

After making a grievous mistake that ended in death, Henryk Mandrusiak feels increasingly ostracized within his own community, and after the passing on of his parents and the departure of his best friend, Reid, there is little left to tie him to the place he calls home. Henryk does something he never expected: He sets out into the harsh wilds alone, in search of far-flung family. He finds his uncle’s village, but making a life for himself in this unfriendly new place—rougher and more impoverished than the campus where he grew up—isn’t easy.

Dominick Dunn is in people acquisition. When the phone rings he shuffles off to the far corners of the globe to retrieve the captured, then turns them over to his employer. He doesn't actually believe these people are immortal, but the pay is good and he likes to travel. Despite rumors that his quarry meets an unthinkable fate at the hands of his employer, he's content with his lot in life. Aaron Wessker is miserable. His life has not gone according to plan.

Pabla was born of the forest, and her home is under attack. She's a skilled warrior, but the ancestral ways can't win a modern war. Her enemy won't stop until they've wiped every one of her kind out. Luke Remini is an underdeveloped man from an overdeveloped country. Crude, inept, and woefully misguided, he's the knight in whining armor that nobody asked for. He must journey to the heart of a failed state and expose the truth before the last rainforest is destroyed.

In the year 2737, Earth is mostly depopulated in the wake of a massive supervolcano, but civilization and culture are preserved in vast orbiting ringstations. Tem, the nine-year-old son of a ringstation anthropologist and a Happdal bow-hunter, wants nothing more than to become a blacksmith like his uncle Trond. But after a rough patch as the only brown-skinned child in the village, his mother Car-En decides that the family should spend some time on the Stanford ringstation.