Category: Empire Of Humanity

Amazon link: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B09SKN2Y6Y Books2Read link: https://books2read.com/b/mKpGlP “Nothing in the Game of Houses is certain and nothing is forever.  The only guarantee is we all die someday.” I still remember the first time I heard that – Scimtar himself said it to me while training me as a Guardian.  Eventually we all make the fatal mistake. …

Amazon link: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07KTF1YGW Books2Read link: https://books2read.com/b/31xj8a The view of Sumabad Strait from a height of 23 kilometers was still breath-taking.  Even if it was holographic instead of ‘real’ Ferugio had apologized, but it wasn’t his fault Scimtar’s extended family was bigger than it used to be.  There were no living spaces available within the Residence…

Amazon link: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B075X4L8ZJ Books2Read link: https://www.books2read.com/u/bzaevD As soon as I got up the next morning, just after zero-four, I got breakfast for the three of us and loaded the dogs into the Interstitial Starbird I’d reserved from the Residence.  Obtaining departure clearance from Sumabad control, I executed a short Vector to just outside the system,…

Amazon link: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B09SP1Q66M Books2Read link: https://books2read.com/b/31RXpa So Armageddon was upon us. There was no point in contacting the rest of the Advancement teams; they’d all received the same message we had.  They’d know what it meant, same as we did: The war we’d all been preparing for was upon us.  Imperial Intelligence – the Eyes…

Amazon link: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07WQGYK7L Books2Read link: https://books2read.com/b/3JDXpK Our first lead was a three-master that would have been recognizable to those who sailed the clipper ships of the 19th century on Earth.  The tall masts would be full of sails under weigh, and the hull was designed to cut through the water, outspeeding any steamer.  There was…

Amazon link: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B072J6YML1 Books2Read link: https://www.books2read.com/u/4AwOxA “I’m due to be relieved day after tomorrow.  I will not force my successor to accept a plan that they might object to,” Platoon Private Markoczi was adamant on that point.  She refused to allow us the use of one of the cutters until such time as her successor…

Amazon link: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01E1PZL5S Books2Read link: https://www.books2read.com/u/bPJxR7 As we filed out, we were met by a guard of armed men.  I’m no expert, but their armor didn’t look like anything I’ve seen in the movies.  Breastplate, helmet, and smallish shield, but they looked thicker than in the movies.  Rustier, too.  Most of the armor was worn…

Amazon link: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00NYH3K08 Books2Read link: https://www.books2read.com/u/4jwA1o “Contract.  Study it.  We begin when you agree to the terms.” Yeriala was Primus for the district that included the residence.  She looked like a nineteen year old Goth girl; in fact she was probably a couple thousand years old.  I pulled the contract into my datalink and cross-checked…

Amazon Link: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00HX6XEE8 Books2Read link: https://www.books2read.com/u/mdN7Gl I announced myself to Helene and she invited me into her studio.  She was working on a voice project for someone else that day; she put it aside and sat with me.  “The first question I have to ask, Grace, is how territorial you are about the dog business?”…

Amazon link: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00FQTL7XY Books2Read link: https://www.books2read.com/u/b5MvQ7 I woke up suddenly in the dark.  There was somebody in the room with me.  I heard Riley bark once, then go silent.  The shape of a woman resolved itself in the closet door.  It was dark, but she wasn’t much bigger than I was.  I grabbed for the…