Luke Tavares has dreamed of joining the vast gaming guilds of the hypernet. After recently graduating high school, his parents have given him the same ultimatum as his siblings; he has one month to get a job to pay for his air, gravity, and water aboard the Dahlia.The freighter needs more hands, but Luke doesn’t want to be a trader-ship engineer. In Sphere World, he can mine asteroids, build bots, and make weapons to fuel the system-wide war between nodes.As a free player, ...

The day had come……Mecha Tail made it to the finals.Then the aliens arrived, and the world changed.James Cook lived for immersive combat simulation video games. Waging battle against other teams. Now he will have to fight for real.It was supposed to be their finest day.Then space ships appeared in the skies, ‘recruiting’ children, teenagers and young adults. Their bodies weren’t fully developed, their minds malleable.The Union’s Planetary Defe...

The scale of Eve Online meets the game-like Ender’s Game, mixed with the universe and reality of the Expanse, spiced with the multi-role OLD Battlefield (and fully destructible environments).Sphere World heralded a greater change than the balance of power between the guilds and free player clans.As Luke struggles with his new reality, his changing future. Brad and Stuart must struggle with the new authority and power they wield. They’re not just dealing with corporations an...

Salchar and the Free Fleet are tired, low on resources, man power and ships that should actually be flying. Yet they have a mandate, free those that are being oppressed.Sarenmenti, Humans, Kuruvians, Chaleelians and the genetic creations of the AI called the Planner, Avarians, band together under the banner of the Free Fleet to go to the fleet’s birthplace-Earth. Life is nothing but a battle for a survival, and Salchar is going to have to use all of his skills to keep his people al...

Factories toil in the darkness of space. To build weapons, to build armadas.Sphere World’s arrival brought changes that still ripple through human space.Orion Belt Enterprises has grown from a gaming company to a system-spanning corporation with fleets to rival the largest factions of human space.They face new enemies, old ones and threats from forgotten sources. It will be up to the men and women of the Legion to maintain and hold the lines. To stand firm against w...

Earth is safe for now, with it came some much needed surprises. Though if Salchar was expecting a break he’s in for a rude awakening, well he’s already done that once…. but anyway.Lady Fairgate has sensed something has gone wrong at Parnmal. Thinking that Jorsht is now trying to carve out his own little kingdom, she sends Captain Kelu, one of her favourite enforcers with the largest Syndicate Fleet assembled since the Syndicate and the Union went head to head.Though Kelu is...

The Kalu are not a long lost nightmare anymore.They came from the black.They destroyed Rosho.They ravaged Heija.That was just the scouting force.They are coming back.Power those reactors, charge those rail cannons and ready the fighters. The Free Fleet is going to war.

The Universe isn’t always as it appears, something that Salchar and the Free Fleet know only too well.When the black’s own creatures come tearing out from children’s nightmares. The Free Fleet will be there.Some might call those that make up the Free Fleet insane, might call them lunatics. But in this universe, it’s good to have some lunatics on your side.

The Second Kalu War rages across known space.The newly formed Union undergoes it’s first baptism, the baptism of war.The Free Fleet is barely holding the line against the Kalu. Salchar and the other commanders of the Free Fleet have one goal. Survive.As war rages politics and power brokering are at work behind the scenes in the Union.Even if the Free Fleet survives the war, will they survive it's aftermath?

Global in scope, accounting has had its share of great thinkers and practitioners, from Luca Pacioloi, the father of accounting, to R. J. Chambers, W. W. Cooper, Yuji Ijiri, Stephen A. Zeff and other figures. This encyclopedia presents more than 400 entries that focus on such subjects as publications in the field, institutional bodies, accounting and economic concepts, accounting issues, authors in accounting, records, leaders in the profession, accounting in various countries, financial c...

Anthony died in a war forgotten, removed from the history books. And then. Someone had the audacity to wake him up from his nap! Is nothing sacred anymore?Aila Wranoris is a princess of the Underdark in the Northern reaches of the Stoha Mountains. The Dark Elves have remained out of the war that has ground to a halt between the Humans and the Beast-Kin. Now, in their research they have found signs of mysterious 'doorways'. She is sent to the Deepwood in the South, between the lands...

Friend. Lovers. Blood kin. Humans. Beast kin. Enemies. Targets.At one time, humans and beast kin called each other friends. They weathered the bad times together and celebrated the good times. They even called one another blood brothers and sisters. They fought beside one another.Time has made these two groups forget their shared history—forget their past relationships. Now, instead of fighting beside one another, the lands at Selenus and Radal prepare to end their cease-fi...