ISC Fleet

Ensign Carol Hansen is six months out of Fleet University, and six months out of a toxic relationship that made no sense to anyone but her. Serving aboard Liberty is everything she had aspired to. But that sweet time comes to an abrupt, violent end when Liberty is destroyed in an unexpected attack. Carol is lucky enough to be "ashore" in the alien city below, and barely survives the death raining down from space.

Carol Hansen and her Antares shipmates are going back to solve the mystery they found at Beta Hydri, taking a retinue of academics with them. But back at Fleet HQ, there is growing frustration about how to run a war when a light-year-per-day just doesn’t seem nearly fast enough.

In this much-anticipated final installment of The Preeminent War series, the Preeminent go 'all in' to crush the ISC Fleet and remove the hated 'Vermin' from their space. They're empowered with a new weapon: a deadly new ship whose real threat Cobra's brain trust can't decipher.

David Powell could tell something strange was happening around Zeta Doradus. There were too many Preeminent SLIP messages that just didn’t make sense, and he knew that could mean trouble not just for the Fleet, but the new Preeminent Leaders at Alpha Mensae, too. When the time came for FleetIntel to go see what was happening for themselves, there was only one choice of whom to send.

The People of Traenah faced a terrible disaster. The comet was coming. It would certainly strike at a predictable time and place. There could be no question about that. The immutable laws of the universe demanded it. The approaching cataclysm silenced wars and joined bitter enemies together to find a way out. A way to somewhere else. Anywhere, else, where they could survive.

Randy Forstmann was destined to be a multi-multi-billionaire, but that was hard to see as he labored for seven years of patient experimentation in his skeptical father's basement. Coached by a brilliant but eccentric mentor, and supported by his wife Kenna and sister Dagny, Randy discovers the secret to achieving previously impossible speeds: gravitons. Lots and lots of gravitons. And, of course, anti-gravitons. After long years in that old basement, he makes the breakthrough he was looking for, and then is faced with finding the path to turn a small prototype into a practical system.

Systemwide’s ship Sierra-22 has suddenly gone quiet. In the International Space Council mining fleet, that never happens. OK, well, it did happen once before, and Systemwide Rare Earth Recovery Services CEO Liz Galloway still remembers her father Lucas delivering a deafening red-faced lecture before firing that captain, and it never happened again. Until today.