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Cameron Alvarez is a Marine Drop Trooper and Marines are no stranger to sacrifice. He was willing to sacrifice his life to protect the innocent, but what’s he’s been asked to give up now is far worse. Having subjected himself to the transformation virus, become linked to the power of another universe, Cam may have sacrificed his sanity—and his soul. The ghosts of that universe haunt him now, whispering in every unguarded moment, trying to turn him against the ones he loves.

Go to war or go to jail. For small-time street hustler Cam Alvarez, the choice is simple.... He has no family, no friends, no place in the world...nothing to lose. When his latest con results in the death of a cartel hit man, Cam opts to join the Marines and leave Earth to fight a vicious alien enemy. Drafted into the Marine Drop-Troopers, Cam discovers there’s one thing he’s even better at than running street-con games, and that’s killing the enemy.

After years of wandering through the galactic wilderness, Cameron Alvarez is home. But home isn’t there anymore. While the Orion mission was gone, an alien virus brought the Commonwealth to its knees and killed billions. All that’s left is a provisional government on an isolated colony, and they need Cam’s help. The new Commonwealth is teetering on the edge of survival, and one push could send it over the brink. That push might be the movement known as the Confluence.

Some enemies just won’t die.... Return to the star-spanning human Republic of Duty, Honor, Planet as Chief of Fleet Intelligence Jason McKay and his deadly Executive Officer Shannon Stark take on another dire threat to humanity! General Antonov’s Protectorate returns to menace the Republic from without, while a possible military coup gestates within its borders. Are the two connected? Will McKay and Stark be able to put the pieces together before it’s too late?

Für Colonel Marcus Hachette vom Flottengeheimdienst und die Besatzung der Orion bedeutet „nach Hause zu kommen“, das Tor zu finden, durch das die Uralten die halbe Galaxie bereist haben, und es zu benutzen, um zur Erde zurückzukehren. Für Sergeant Major Ellen Campbell, die Frau, die für Cam immer noch „Top“ ist, ist ihr Zuhause das Marine Corps. Für Vicky Sandoval ist ihr Zuhause der Ort, wo sie und Cam ein gemeinsames Leben aufbauen können – sei es zurück im Commonwealth oder genau hier in diesem seltsamen neuen Teil der Galaxie.

We have met the enemy… and they are us. Peace between the kingdoms of Dravos is beginning to fracture. Border raids are escalating, allies are turning on one another, and Jack Schafer is about to discover an enemy that doesn't invade from outside, but works through the minds of those he trusts...

Cam is a Marine, not a spy. That’s what he keeps trying to tell Fleet Intelligence. But when he and Vicky signed back up, they agreed to follow orders. And their orders are to keep working for the Corporate Security Force, and find out what the private paramilitary force knows about Zan-Thint's plans to use Predecessor technology against the Commonwealth. Stuck leading a crew of cutthroat mercenaries - who want nothing more than to slaughter the wildcat miners, and take their rhenium ore - Cam and Vicky try to figure out why the Corporate Council is really interested in the mine.

From street criminal to war hero. From outcast to Marine officer. The journey has been a long one, but now it’s reaching the end. Cam Alvarez leads his platoon of Drop-Troopers into the Tahni Imperium, into the final days of the war and the bloodiest battles yet. The Tahni will throw everything they have into the defense of their core worlds, and when that includes using their own civilians as shields, Lt. Cam Alvarez will have to decide whether to follow orders and fire on civilians or follow his conscience and risk his caree...

All Cam Alvarez has known is war. For three years, he’s fought the marauding alien Tahni on one God-forsaken planet after another, leading a squad of armored Drop Troopers. But the war is about to change. Cam is an officer now, fresh out of OCS and taking charge of his old platoon, and things have reached a tipping point. Instead of fighting a desperate holding action against the enemy, the Commonwealth is finally ready to take back the human colonies the Tahni seized early in the war. To free the people the enemy have kept as human shields.

Cam Alvarez is a Drop-Trooper. A warrior-knight wrapped in the futuristic armor of a high-tech battlesuit, and he’s one of the best. When he’s promoted to sergeant and asked to become a leader, he faces a whole new challenge. The Marines are striking deep into enemy territory, and the casualties are mounting. Cam is torn, knowing his job is to follow orders and carry out the battle plan, even if he doesn’t agree with it. But his squad has become his family, and now he’s being asked to lead his family into battle, knowing it will mean their deaths.

For small-time street hustler Cam Alvarez, the choice is simple. He has no family, no friends, no place in the world...nothing to lose. When his latest con results in the death of a cartel hitman, Cam opts to join the Marines and leave Earth to fight a vicious alien enemy.

Cameron Alvarez and the crew of the Orion are hot on the trail of the Seekers, following the Predecessor faction on their quest to find the source of the Skrela infestation. But the crew is close to the breaking point, and their commander, Colonel Hachette, is long past it. The death of Sgt. Major Campbell has left him devastated and unable to lead.

Charlie Travers hat nicht darum gebeten, der Anführer einer Rebellion zu werden … aber niemand sonst wollte den Job. Jetzt, da er eine Armee zusammengestellt und sie mit den tödlichsten Kampfflugzeugen ausgerüstet hat, die je gebaut wurden–den legendären Vanguard-Starfightern–, braucht er nur noch eines: jemanden, der diese Dinger fliegen kann.

Cam Alvarez ist in den fernsten Tiefen der Galaxie gestrandet … und der einzige Weg nach Hause führt mitten durch eine Horde außerirdischer Monster. Cam und die anderen Mitglieder der Task Force sind Zan Thint durch das Tor der Uralten zu einem anderen Spiralarm der Galaxie gefolgt. Dort sind sie gestrandet … es sei denn, sie finden ein weiteres Tor. Auf den Spuren der Uralten, die vor Jahrtausenden aus dem uns bekannten Teil der Galaxie geflohen sind, entdecken sie eine verlorene Zivilisation nach der anderen … aber werden sie auch die Uralten finden?

Two years after the end of the Psi War, Caleb Mitchell is Emperor in all but name, leading his armies on a crusade to cleanse the colony worlds and Earth itself of the last of the psionic madmen known as the Changed. But the citizens of the Commonwealth weren't the only ones devastated by the war; the criminal cartels in the Pirate Worlds are in chaos, their trade cut off, their resources running out. A young warlord named Amos Dobrev rises up to unite the cartels into a union they call the Syndicate. 

Cam und Vicky verfolgen Zan-Thint bis zu seiner letzten Festung, einer leblosen Welt tief im Gebiet der Tahni. Wenn sie ihn nicht ausschalten können, bevor er eine uralte, außerirdische Waffe aktiviert, wird ein Schwarm biomechanischer Killermaschinen alles Leben im Commonwealth auslöschen. Aber die Vernichtung seiner Feinde ist nur die eine Hälfte von Zan-Thints Plan. Er unternimmt nichts, ohne einen Fluchtweg in der Hinterhand zu haben. Und dieser wird ihn–und Cam Alvarez–aus der Galaxie hinausführen.

Victory was supposed to mean peace. After defeating the Archon and returning from certain death, Jack Schafer should finally be able to rest beside the woman he loves. Instead, he discovers a cruel bargain already in motion. An ancient machine intelligence is consuming Dr. Manheim from the...

Cole Ransom, Captain of the ICA cruiser Mistral, is a man with a checkered past and a crew of misfits held together by loyalty and stolen parts. He's made a career bending the rules. And after being blamed for an incident that nearly restarted a galactic war, he's used to being the Fleet’s favorite scapegoat. But when a routine investigation leads Cole to stumble upon a conspiracy that reaches the highest levels of the United Systems Senate, everything changes.

Das versucht er der Flottenaufklärung immer wieder zu erklären, aber als Vicky und er zum Militär zurückkehrten, haben sie sich bereit erklärt, Befehle zu befolgen. Und ihre Befehle lauten, weiterhin für die Corporate Security Force zu arbeiten und herauszufinden, was die private paramilitärische Truppe über Zan-Thint und seine Pläne weiß, die Technologie der Uralten gegen das Commonwealth einzusetzen.

Charlie Travers has been away from home for a long time, fighting to free the galaxy from the tyranny of the Anguilar Empire. But now the Anguilar know where that home is...and it's only a matter of time before they set their sights on Earth, intent on conquest and enslavement. Charlie doesn't have enough troops or supplies to stop them. And there's only one place he can get them.