Résultats pour "Space Opera" dans Militaire

Rider James is a Breacher. A specialist in blowing holes in starships and making impossible exits. But currently, the only door he’s looking at is the one locking his cell at Blackrock Prison. He keeps his head down and his mouth shut, driven by a single promise: to survive long enough to see his daughter again. Then Naval Intelligence walks in with an offer he can’t refuse: a full pardon in exchange for one last job. The mission? Drop into a criminal stronghold on the edge of contested space, extract a kidnapped scientist, and disappear.

Échoués sur une planète alien et laissés pour morts. Ils ne se sont jamais sentis aussi vivants. La tentative de coloniser un système de l'autre côté d'un portail vers les étoiles a conduit à de graves problèmes. Des tempêtes massives, des vers des sables et d'étranges êtres menacent de mettre fin à toute chance de survie pour notre équipe. Espinoza et ses camarades Marines luttent pour rétablir le contact avec la Terre tout en affrontant l'environnement et ceux qui ont attaqué leur vaisseau lors du passage par le portail.

Lorsqu'un autre groupe d'agents de l'Inquisition se fait massacrer, Ravenor et son équipe coupent les ponts avec leur organisation et adoptent volontairement le statut de renégat afin de poursuivre leur proie, violant ainsi tous les commandements de leurs supérieurs. Catapultés à travers l'espace et le temps, confrontés à des ennemis d'une puissance et d'une malignité sans limites, quels sacrifices seront-ils obligés d'accepter pour remporter la victoire ?

"La Menace fantôme", première épisode de la prélogie : la genèse de l'Empire et de Dark Vador. Il y a bien longtemps, dans une galaxie lointaine, très lointaine... La République Galactique est en pleine ébullition. La taxation des routes commerciales reliant les systèmes éloignés provoque la discorde. Pour régler la question, la cupide Fédération du Commerce et ses redoutables vaisseaux de guerre imposent un blocus à la petite planète Naboo.

"L'attaque des clones", deuxième épisode de la prélogie : la genèse de l’Empire et de Dark Vador. Depuis le blocus de la planète Naboo par la Fédération du commerce, la République de Palpatine connaît une véritable crise. Un groupe de dissidents mené par le Compte Dooku, un Jedi déchu, manifeste son mécontentement envers le régime. Le Sénat et la population intergalactique se montrent pour leur part inquiets face à l'émergence d'une telle menace.

Après les horreurs d'Isstvan V, Horus se déclare en guerre ouverte contre l'Imperium. Dans les recoins sombres du palais de l'Empereur, de bien mystérieuses personnes se réunissent. Leur plan est d'envoyer une équipe d'assassins pour exécuter l'archi-traître Horus et ainsi mettre un terme à cette guerre avant qu'elle n'embrase la galaxie toute entière. Mais ce qu'ils ignorent, c'est qu'Horus et ses sombres alliés se sont engagés dans un plan tout aussi sinistre que le leur.

The Emperor's daughters are coming to the Frontier... with an illegally seized warfleet for unknown purposes. They are raiding for supplies, or receiving them from sympathizers as they cut a path across the Empire encouraging all who will listen to rise up and overthrow their father.

The discovery of an ancient alien pyramid buried under the ice in Antarctica changes Earth forever. We learn that we are the forgotten slaves of a galaxy spanning empire called the V'kit'no'sat who abandoned our planet 100,000 years ago during a massive rebellion. Our ancestors, the Zen'zat, were given special genetic powers and ordered never to reproduce under pain of death...for themselves and their offspring. That means Earth's entire population is illegal and if the V'kit'no'sat return to reclaim their lost border colony they'll wipe out every last one of us.

Luke Skywalker a disparu. En son absence, le sinistre Premier Ordre est né des cendres de l'Empire et cherche à l'éliminer. Avec le soutien de la République, la générale Leia Organa mène la Résistance et tente désespérément de retrouver son frère, afin d'obtenir son aide pour ramener la paix et la justice dans la galaxie.

C'est-à-dire, jusqu'à ce qu'ils découvrent la raison pour laquelle tant de notre passé a été enterré. Shrina est passée d'agent du FBI à demi-dragon redoutable, mais un nouveau pouvoir émerge et c'est à elle de l'arrêter. Dans l'espace, Espinoza et son équipe ont un nouveau monde à explorer, tandis que Trent a porté la guerre intergalactique à de nouveaux niveaux. Shrina sera-t-elle capable de tenir tête au dragon ressuscité ? Quel rôle jouent les Goldies et leurs hôtes dans la guerre ultime pour le destin de l'univers ?

As a Marine, Henry Morgan would have said it was more likely he’d die from enemy fire than from being struck by a flying lawnmower while at a baseball game. But it was the lawnmower that ended up taking him out. A century later, Henry wakes up as a reconstituted intelligence, and is promptly drafted to be the governing AI for America’s first military starship. After decades of model-trained AIs wreaking havoc across the globe, humanity is ready to try something a little more…human.

They say you can’t go home again… …especially if you’re the governing mind for an interstellar military starship. It's official: Sergeant Henry Morgan has now spent more time as a starship than he spent dead. His mission is more than a century old, but in some ways, he feels like it's just begun. A desperate distress call from Earth has brought him back to his old cosmic stomping grounds, for your standard save-humanity-from-extinction-by-alien-constructs operation.

As the crew of the Starship Interchange has now learned, when the AI you've been mistreating for centuries turns out to be something else entirely, it can lead to some tense interactions in the mess. With Earth wiped out, and half her crew gone, the Interchange limps toward Sirius—the Dog Star, which aliens call the Beacon. There, Captain Seemey, Sergeant Morgan, and the remnants of their crew are pulled into what promises to be the war to end all wars. A dark force has all but taken over, and galactic powers are fighting over what's left.

Britain's bestselling SF writer returns to outer space.In AD 2329, humanity has colonised over four hundred planets, all of them interlinked by wormholes. With Earth at its centre, the Intersolar Commonwealth now occupies a sphere of space approximately four hundred light years across.When an astronomer on the outermost world of Gralmond, observes a star 2000 light years distant - and then a neighbouring one - vanish, it is time for the Commonwealth to discover what happened to them.

The Cadian Gate is broken, and the Imperium is riven in two. The might of the Traitor Legions, kept shackled for millennia behind walls of iron and sorcery, has been unleashed on a darkening galaxy. Among those seeking vengeance on the Corpse Emperor’s faltering realm are the Death Guard, once proud crusaders of the Legiones Astartes, now debased creatures of terror and contagion.

Admiral Stonefist has long served the Emperor with unwavering loyalty, defending the Imperium and driving its expansion across the stars. A hardened veteran of countless campaigns, his faith in the ideals that once guided him is faltering. His new assistant, Kinnit the Kobold, is brimming with joy to be assigned to the coveted Ninth Fleet. She arrives filled with hope and energy, eager to rise through the ranks of the Imperial Navy and earn her kin a place in the Imperium. Together, they uncover a conspiracy that could shatter the galaxy.

In the hellish sprawl of Imperial Terra, Ordo Hereticus Inquisitor Erasmus Crowl serves as a stalwart protector, for even the Throneworld is not immune to the predations of its enemies. In the course of his duty, Crowl becomes embroiled in a dark conspiracy, one that leads all the way to the halls of the Imperial Palace. As he plunges deeper into the shadowy underbelly of the many palace districts, his investigation attracts the attention of hidden forces, and soon he and his acolyte Spinoza are being hunted.

The Traitor Host of Horus Lupercal tightens its iron grip on the Palace of Terra, and one by one the walls and bastions begin to crumple and collapse. Rogal Dorn, Praetorian of Terra, redoubles his efforts to keep the relentless enemy at bay, but his forces are vastly outnumbered and hopelessly outgunned. Dorn simply cannot defend everything. Any chance of survival now requires sacrifice, but what battles dare he lose so that others can be won? Is there one tactical stroke, one crucial combat, that could turn the tide forever and win the war outright?

Captain Nathan Kade just wants a quick job to keep his busted-up spaceship limping through the Solar System. Instead he gets Vessani S’Kaari, a mysterious and beautiful catgirl who tried—and failed—to steal a ship belonging to a band of space pirates. She’s chaos in a tight catsuit, but she also has a lead on what may be the greatest treasure trove of lost technology the Solar System has ever seen.

Henry Morgan went to a baseball game hoping to catch a pop fly - not an untimely death from a flying lawnmower to the head. It's the lawnmower he gets. But he doesn't stay dead. Instead, he wakes up to find that a century has passed, and he's being drafted to be the governing AI for humanity's first interstellar starship.