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DESCENDANTS OF WAR
THE COMPLETE SERIES
G J OGDEN
CONTENTS
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Descendant of War
Book One
Prologue
Chapter 1
Exceeding orders
Chapter 2
A pirate’s life
Chapter 3
A diplomatic incident
Chapter 4
Unintended consequences
Chapter 5
The Devil’s Blood
Chapter 6
The New Earthers
Chapter 7
Welcome to the Abyss
Chapter 8
Mind the gap
Chapter 9
Honor and war
Chapter 10
First day on the job
Chapter 11
The Buzz
Chapter 12
Attempts at diplomacy
Chapter 13
The Gates of Hell
Chapter 14
The big bad Wolfe
Chapter 15
Lord of Night
Chapter 16
Unexpected visitors
Chapter 17
Aishi
Chapter 18
Flashes in the dark
Chapter 19
A good kind of Jinx
Chapter 20
Enable Combat Mode
Chapter 21
An old enemy. A new fight.
Chapter 22
Next stop, destruction
Chapter 23
The language of war
Chapter 24
The Grand Imperator
Chapter 25
The seventh realm
Chapter 26
The monster inside
Chapter 27
Enemy of my enemy
Chapter 28
Deep in Contemplation
Chapter 29
Duel of the descendants
Chapter 30
Diplomatic immunity
Chapter 31
Quarr whiskey
Chapter 32
Descendant of war
Battleship of War
Book Two
Chapter 1
Voices of dissent
Chapter 2
The art of diplomacy
Chapter 3
A thorny encounter
Chapter 4
Slumming it
Chapter 5
Always bet on Black
Chapter 6
Miaow Miaow
Chapter 7
What a Rush
Chapter 8
Docking bay 99
Chapter 9
The Nutcracker
Chapter 10
The Wasp
Chapter 11
Good-looking Bukkan
Chapter 12
It’s going to be rough
Chapter 13
Mud and blood
Chapter 14
The apex predator
Chapter 15
Tomb of the unconquerable
Chapter 16
Saved by the buzz
Chapter 17
Run for the hills
Chapter 18
The battle of Lone Water
Chapter 19
Round two
Chapter 20
Flight of the Invictus
Chapter 21
Respirocyte transfusion
Chapter 22
Hatching a plan
Chapter 23
The High River heist
Chapter 24
Katee Kane’s con
Chapter 25
Dangerous driving
Chapter 26
Six on one
Chapter 27
Abyss Squadron
Chapter 28
A bunch of knuckleheads
Chapter 29
An unwelcome visitor
Chapter 30
It has begun
Ancestor of War
Book Three
Chapter 1
Rebel yell
Chapter 2
The calm before
Chapter 3
Secrets and Eyrhu coffee
Chapter 4
End of the line
Chapter 5
Seeing double
Chapter 6
Night in the slum
Chapter 7
Rock and a hard place
Chapter 8
Back to Black
Chapter 9
Draining the cesspool
Chapter 10
Sending a message
Chapter 11
A relic in space
Chapter 12
The evolution of suffering
Chapter 13
Ghost in the machine
Chapter 14
A misplaced sense of honor
Chapter 15
Loneliness is not artificial
Chapter 16
Into the mouth of the lion
Chapter 17
Stepping into the unknown
Chapter 18
Rise of the Obsidians
Chapter 19
The Progenitor world
Chapter 20
The chamber of horrors
Chapter 21
A fight to the top
Chapter 22
The Museum of Solid Light
Chapter 23
A matter of trust
Chapter 24
Who betrayed who?
Chapter 25
Leave no One behind
Chapter 26
A barrier to progress
Chapter 27
A personal request
Chapter 28
Cashing in a favor
Chapter 29
Six becomes four
Chapter 30
History repeats
Shadow of War
Chapter 1
An explosive morning
Chapter 2
Shepard’s war
Chapter 3
Enough is enough
Chapter 4
Grime pays
Chapter 5
A fatal mistake
Chapter 6
Starting a war
Chapter 7
Qator Iustus
Chapter 8
Escalating tensions
Chapter 9
A game of chicken
Chapter 10
A familiar scar
Chapter 11
Kaeso Silus
Chapter 12
Maddy and me
Chapter 13
A good deal
Chapter 14
A bad deal
Chapter 15
A pirate’s life
Chapter 16
Emergency medical treatment
Chapter 17
Deep in Deep Six
Chapter 18
Failed experiments
Chapter 19
A very old enemy
Chapter 20
The Oubliette
Chapter 21
Heading into trouble
Chapter 22
Unwise challenges
Chapter 23
Cody’s shuttle
Chapter 24
The Enclave
Chapter 25
Cisos Severra
Chapter 26
Never trust a Skemm
Chapter 27
We’ve got this
Chapter 28
Fletcher’s whiskey
Machines of War
Chapter 1
The battle of Arminius
Chapter 2
To hell with diplomacy
Chapter 3
Experimental surgery
Chapter 4
Genetic memories
Chapter 5
A bad atmosphere
Chapter 6
Faithful companions
Chapter 7
The bowels of the Slum
Chapter 8
A matter of faith
Chapter 9
Surge nightmares
Chapter 10
The underground
Chapter 11
The First Minister
Chapter 12
Cold storage
Chapter 13
I am One
Chapter 14
It’s like a reflex
Chapter 15
The Arkatrix
Chapter 16
Out of breath
Chapter 17
Imperixo Qurrat
Chapter 18
The last stand
Chapter 19
It’s not right
Chapter 20
The final frontier
Chapter 21
Lessons from the past
Chapter 22
The Shadow Realm
Chapter 23
Docking procedures
Chapter 24
A battle of wits
Chapter 25
Transformation
Chapter 26
We will become gods
Chapter 27
Grave risks
Chapter 28
Bugle call
Chapter 29
Neutral no more
Chapter 30
Coming clean
The Vanguard
Heroes of War
Chapter 1
Evacuating the Abyss
Chapter 2
Unwanted house guests
Chapter 3
Road rage
Chapter 4
A strong reaction
Chapter 5
Penthouse assault
Chapter 6
The cost of failure
Chapter 7
The Last Night
Chapter 8
The battle of Concord Station
Chapter 9
The Abyss
Chapter 10
The Hidden Blanet
Chapter 11
Here be dragons
Chapter 12
Relics of war
Chapter 13
The monument
Chapter 14
Old acquaintances
Chapter 15
Wounds that never heal
Chapter 16
One way trips
Chapter 17
Heart to heart
Chapter 18
The rebel cocoon
Chapter 19
Attack of the Sentinel
Chapter 20
Licking wounds
Chapter 21
Second chances
Chapter 22
Ramming speed
Chapter 23
Fight or die
Chapter 24
Friend or foe
Chapter 25
Descendants of war
Chapter 26
Not this time
Chapter 27
Bittersweet celebrations
Chapter 28
A new hope
Chapter 29
A simple truth
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DESCENDANT OF WAR
BOOK ONE
PROLOGUE
HISTORY BECOMES LEGEND
One thousand years ago, a horrific war against the alien Sa’Nerran Empire resulted in the annihilation of Earth and the deaths of billions. Belligerent and cruel, the waspish hisses of the Sa’Nerra haunted the dreams of all who faced them in battle. The aliens were cunning too. By studying the neural communications implants that all humans had fitted at birth, the Sa’Nerra found a way to twist people’s minds. Fleet Captains turned against their own crews, entire ships went rogue, and colonies were brainwashed into servitude or slaughtered by the million. A vast interstellar society was wiped out in a matter of years, Earth itself was destroyed, and humanity was on the brink of extinction. Yet the war was ultimately won, thanks to the actions of a ruthless and unpitying group of soldiers.
Known as the Omega Taskforce, and led by Captain Lucas Sterling, these unique men and women took the fight back to the Sa’Nerra, using tactics that many considered immoral, and even abhorrent. Sterling and his officers destroyed the alien fleet and sterilized the alien home-world using cobalt-salted nuclear torpedoes. Fifty billion Sa’Nerra died in the fires and radioactive dust clouds that followed the bombardment of their world. Yet the Sa’Nerra were not eradicated. Fifteen ships escaped, surging through ancient interstellar apertures into unknown regions of the galaxy, never to be seen again.
With the Sa’Nerra gone, humanity survived and created a new home on the last remaining inhabited planet - the former colony world called Bastion, dozens of light years from a war-ravaged solar system. The actions of Sterling and his fellow Omega officers were immortalized in texts written by a sentient AI known as One – the only living survivor of those times. Eventually, the Sa’Nerra were all but forgotten; reduced to monsters in stories told to children to keep them fearful of venturing out alone at night. History eventually became legend.
In time, humanity recovered, rebuilt and again ventured even deeper into the stars, discovering five new alien species. Some were aggressive, such as the proud and stubborn Quarr, while others were diplomatic, such as the pious De’Vaught. Wars were fought, won and lost on all sides, yet unlike the hateful Sa’Nerra, these races all shared some common ground. Eventually, a fractious peace was brokered between the six realms, and boundaries were established between their realms.
To facilitate trade and maintain diplomatic relations between the races, a unique twenty-kilometre-long space station was constructed in neutral territory, where the boundaries of all six realms intersected. Named Concord Station by the humans who built it, the outpost went by a different name to those unlucky enough to be stationed there - The Abyss. While noble in purpose, Concord quickly became a magnet for the worst elements of society from each species. It was a haven for smugglers, dealers, traffickers, crimelords, corrupt tycoons, runaways and those with simply nowhere else to go. And while it was a thriving trade hub, vice was its principal industry.
