The good guys won the battle, but the war goes on.Wash Williams has been recruited to help Brian Reeves and the Delta Force team close gates to the worlds controlled by the Hive-Mind, while back on Thacia, Valon does the same thing from the other side.But new gates continue to open, and unless someone can figure out how to stop the effect, it will keep spreading and the war will never end.The only hope the Earthers and the Thacians have may be to work together in a ...

We’ve won a battle … but we’re losing the war.Travis Miller, his image reformed from the moron who screwed up our first contact with aliens to one of the heroes of the Battle for Eden, is given a new assignment: retake the occupied colony of Brigantia. Losing it would be a glancing blow to the Tahni Imperium, but it would be Earth’s first solid strike against them, a chance to go on the offensive.Ryan Hendrix and the Fleet Marines will be the tip of the spe...

Randall Munroe's past won't stay dead.Born Tyler Callas, the pampered heir of a Corporate Council scion, he fled that life and adapted the new identity of Randall Munroe so he could join the Commonwealth Space Fleet Marine Corps' elite Force Recon unit in the war against the alien Tahni Imperium.But when he returned from the war, his old life found him. His mother, Corporate Council Executive Patrice Damiani, tracked him down and tried to return him to her web of control, e...

It can really suck to work for relatives. Particularly when your uncle's an egomaniacal, power-hungry narcissist who wants to take over the galaxy.Former Recon Marine Randall Munroe has been working as a hired gun for the Corporate Council for years, doing the dirty work of its Director, Andre Damiani, because he's had no choice—and because Andre is his uncle. But when Damiani gets his hands on incredibly dangerous alien technology, it's time to fight back.Munroe has seen t...

A disaffected playboy searches for redemption.A traumatized war vet searches for meaning and truth.A ruthless Corporate Council fixer searches for the one big score that will make her career.What they all seek, on the same remote colony world, is....The Gate of Dreams.A 6500-word short story set in the Birthright universe.

Alex Kane was broken.Broken by the war, by the death of his lover, ready to kill himself...until his old bosses from Fleet Intelligence offered him a chance at redemption with one last mission.All he had to do was walk into the middle of a gang war, penetrate an insular cult of cyborgs and kill the same sort of half-alien, half-machine monster who'd killed the love of his life during the war...the same machine the cyborgs worship as their messiah.What could go wrong...

Revenge is heading to Earth at the speed of light…The Gaia probes left a dying Earth millennia ago in a bold effort to spread life to a lifeless universe.Unfortunately, not all of those worlds were uninhabited...The aliens watched their world die to swarms of nanite terraformers, but with their last breath they launched a terrible, unstoppable weapon to kill those who'd stolen their home.Patrol Captain Sam Avalon is the first human to encounter it, a missile...

The Bugs are coming...They destroyed the civilization of the ancient alien Elders thousands of years ago, and now they're following Andy Clanton and the crew of the James Bowie back from the edge of the galaxy and into Alliance space, bent on wiping out all intelligent life in the galaxy.The Bugs probe for weakness, attacking new friends and old enemies, and forcing Andy and the others into union with forces that had tried to destroy them only mont...

First contact gone wrong …It was every starship captain’s nightmare, and for Travis Miller, it was his own personal hell.He’d done everything by the book, but when the Tahni had attacked him and his crew, there was no choice but to return fire and destroy the first alien vessel humans had ever encountered.Excoriated in the press, his career in shambles, Travis is exiled to a long patrol of the outer colony worlds. Forgotten, except as a bad example ...

Ryan Hendrix is dead …… Or so his family, his girlfriend, and his fellow Marines think.Terribly wounded during the battle for Hermes, Ryan Hendrix was repaired with cybernetics, transformed into a weapon by Fleet Intelligence … and covertly dropped onto the enemy-occupied colony at Aphrodite to sabotage the enemy and build up a civilian resistance.While Ryan fights the real battle behind enemy lines, Travis Miller and Jessica Leer struggle with politics … a...

They thought the war was over . . . the enemy had other ideas.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 ...

Sometimes, it takes killing to make a living.That fiancee? She’s married—to another guy.The family business? His parents sold it.Jack Bennet returns from the war to find the life he left behind has moved on without him. The only option he has to make ends meet lies in a military surplus junkyard starship. What’s a former Combat Search and Rescue soldier to do?Fix up the ship, hire the cheapest pilot—a notorious drunk—and take the first contr...