Rex harlan (4 Ergebnisse)

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - James Malwyn doesn't command anything. He is assigned to a salvage station - Kappa-9, the Boneyard - where eleven people strip dead ships for parts at the edge of Protectorate space. His workbench is scarred, his coffee is terrible, and his viewport stays blacked out because he prefers schematics to scenery.Then the relays go dark.Not one relay. All of them. Simultaneously. Across systems that share no common routing, no shared infrastructure, no single point of failure. The station's Archivist - a being who has cataloged three thousand years of Protectorate communications history - confirms what the data makes inescapable: this is targeted destruction, executed with perfect knowledge of the network's architecture.Something is cutting the Protectorate blind. And the pattern points to one conclusion: it's not stopping at communications.The Penitent have arrived. An ancient civilization that Silences entire worlds as an act of religious mercy - attending each dying planet with tenderness, counting every voice as it goes quiet, because they believe noise is suffering and silence is peace. They are not cruel. They are not angry. They are patient, and they are thorough, and they have done this before.No fleet is coming. No orders are arriving. James is an engineer at a junk station with eleven staff, a hold full of scrap, and a Koss fabrication team that builds everything twenty percent over spec because their species doesn't know how to build things that break.So he does what engineers do. He builds.From decommissioned hulls. From salvaged drives. From the competence of people who were never supposed to fight a war but are the only ones left to fight it.The Scavenger Fleet is the first book in The Penitent War - a military sci-fi series about building something worth defending from the wreckage of everything that failed.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Thirteen salvage-built ships. A hundred and eighty crew from six species. One engineer who never wanted to command anything - and a war that doesn't care what he wanted.James Malwyn holds the Scavenger Fleet together the way he holds everything together: with his hands. Welding compound, structural patches, and the specific stubbornness of a man who has spent thirty years keeping ships alive and isn't about to stop because the ships are at war. His crew is human, Koss, Lumi, Shenn, Vreth, and Eld - six species who were never designed to share atmospheric systems, let alone fight as one.But the Penitent don't care about design. They care about silence - the systematic extinction of every conscious species in charted space, guided by a theology that calls genocide sacred and a stolen navigation database that tells them exactly where to find their targets.When evidence surfaces that a founding species of the Compact has been secretly communicating with the Penitent advance force, Commander Roth faces an impossible choice: expose the conspiracy and bury the fleet's chance at political recognition, or stay silent and become complicit. She chooses the larger problem. She always chooses the larger problem.Meanwhile, aboard a Penitent vessel, an observer called the Listener keeps an unauthorized record of destroyed civilizations - and discovers that the founding texts of the Work contain a gap where dissent was erased. The unanimity was constructed. The silence was never unanimous.The Orphaned Fleet is military science fiction for readers who believe the best weapons are competence, stubbornness, and a crew that refuses to stop being a crew. Book Two of The Penitent War.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - They compose acoustic portraits of every world they destroy - beautiful recordings of civilizations about to die. Then they call it mercy.Fleet Chief James Malwyn doesn't inspire people. He solves problems. With eleven ships, a crew of five species, and fourteen sheets of graph paper, he's identified something no one else has seen: the Penitent advance bends. Their entire military operation routes around a region of space that shouldn't matter - unless what's inside it is the most important thing they have.When a failed Penitent self-destruct leaves a survivor - the first ever captured alive - James's daily conversations with the prisoner called Speaker expose a civilization far more complex than the monolithic threat the Protectorate has been fighting. The Penitent record the sound of every world before they sterilize it. They consider consciousness itself a disease. And somewhere in their suppressed founding texts, their own ancestors asked the question that might unravel everything: Does the Work create silence, or does it create deafness Five ships. Sixty crew. Three months in uncharted space. James is taking his salvage fleet into the empty place on the map to find the answer - because the answer might be the only weapon that works against an enemy you can't outfight, only out-think.The Last Place is Book Three of The Penitent War - military science fiction for readers who want their space opera with philosophical depth, found-family crews, and an engineer protagonist who saves the galaxy with graph paper and the stubborn refusal to stop building things.…