Aer-ki Jyr Books in Order

With basic training behind them, Star Force's recruits take on greater responsibilities. New revelations about their enemy, their future and the Black Knight's origins force them to reconsider the organization they have joined and the challenges ahead.

Paul and Morgan compete for top honors as Star Force's trainees approach graduation. A series of paired challenges tests their abilities and teamwork, with the final contest deciding who will emerge ahead of their fellow recruits.

High school runner Paul Taylor joins a mysterious Star Force recruitment program and discovers an ancient alien threat. He and his fellow candidates must prepare to lead humanity through a war in which survival is the only realistic victory.

Paul and his teammates leave Atlantis for a training trip into space. Exercises in weightlessness and high gravity introduce them to Star Force's orbital infrastructure and the expanding economy their organization is building beyond Earth.

The nation responsible for disguised pirate attacks is finally exposed, and Star Force imposes penalties. The culprits' unexpected response turns an apparent resolution into a new crisis, intensifying tensions in the aftermath of the attacks.

Paul and his fellow elite trainees master combat challenges faster than their instructors expect. When Star Force introduces an unpredictable new element, their confidence is tested by an obstacle that their previous successes have left them unprepared to face.

Long after humanity's defeat plunged the universe into stagnation, rediscovered human artifacts begin restoring lost technology. One extraordinary find promises to reshape the future, setting off a contest whose consequences could reach across the stars.

After repelling a Chinese attack, Star Force moves into enemy territory on the Moon to end the conflict. Meanwhile, the missing Chinese fleet remains a threat, leaving the outcome of the fighting in space uncertain.

Aer-ki Jyr presents his own concept art depicting alien races from the Star Force universe. This illustrated companion gives readers a visual introduction to some of the extraterrestrial peoples who inhabit his science fiction setting.

Esna and her brother scavenge technology from a ruined civilization while concealing their faces from their alien neighbors. Discovering that they belong to the feared human race threatens the fragile life their adoptive parents have protected.

As the V'kit'no'sat dinosaur empire approaches civil war, T-rex commander Mak'to'ran risks being branded a traitor. He must gather loyal supporters and reunite divided races before paranoia and internal conflict destroy their shared future.

Mak'to'ran brings the Hjar'at disturbing intelligence about altered Hadarak and Star Force's powerful allies. His mission becomes more dangerous when he discovers further treachery among the militant Stegosauruses whose response could shape the empire's future.

The V'kit'no'sat Empire fractures, but its experienced races resist the devastation of unrestricted civil war. Their struggle becomes the Stun Wars, a territorial conflict fought with the aim of preserving lives, equipment and the empire's overall strength.

With increasing responsibilities, Mak'to'ran continues trying to reunify the fractured V'kit'no'sat empire. A newly uncovered mystery from the past adds another challenge to his efforts to rebuild a civilization divided by its own internal conflicts.

After the failed attack on Earth, the V’kit’no’sat empire faces divisions that could become a civil war. Mak’to’ran, a defeated fleet commander marked as a traitor, seeks to rally loyal forces as deeper fractures emerge.

Stranded on a high-gravity jungle planet, Esna and other evacuees flee the V'kit'no'sat. Her limited endurance slows their escape, but the Star Force personnel protecting her refuse to abandon her even as the enemy closes in.

After centuries of retreat, Star Force is approaching technological parity with the V'kit'no'sat. Veteran commander Paul-024 must confront a major enemy offensive intended to eliminate the human civilization before its growing strength can turn the war.

Aer-ki Jyr explains the physical and mental training philosophy underlying Star Force. Moving beyond the fictional empire, this manual sets out his ideas about becoming a warrior and the relationship between disciplined training and longevity.

Star Force must look beyond immediate crises to secure its future. As present demands compete for attention, the organization continues building toward long-term survival, recognizing that merely defending its existing holdings cannot provide lasting security.

An invasion by the V'kit'no'sat exposes Earth's hidden history and threatens humanity with extermination. Star Force must hold back the dinosaur empire while civilians evacuate toward the galactic rim, knowing that its forces cannot save everyone.

The Skarron Crusade reaches the advanced Voku Empire with numbers that overwhelm its technological advantages. As Star Force faces its own war, the wider galaxy confronts an offensive whose immense resources turn resistance into a struggle of attrition.

The campaign to conquer Star Force moves from space combat to planetary battlefields. With the focus shifting away from the Uriti, giant mechs and dinosaurs clash on the ground to decide which side will control contested worlds.

Only months after escaping Mace, Esna and Rammak are caught in another crisis. A V'kit'no'sat attack strikes their Star Force base on an ice world, threatening the refuge they have reached after their earlier ordeal.

The Zak'de'ron approach Star Force after the Rit'ko'sor join its ranks, seeking to make their wishes clear. A serious mistake during that contact threatens to transform their relationship with the trailblazers and reshape future dealings.

Jessica Avril governs distant Star Force systems while secretly directing a project vital to humanity's future. When the V'kit'no'sat war reaches her realm, she must protect both her people and Project Legolas with few defenses available.

Mak'to'ran and Star Force return to the Sol system for a summit. Their encounter brings the two civilizations together at a moment when the outcome of their discussions could fundamentally alter the relationship between them.

A temporary truce with the V'kit'no'sat makes Star Force's survival a startling example to the galaxy. Other races begin reassessing the human empire, including an unexpected interested party that neither side anticipated drawing into its affairs.

Events surrounding Kara expose the Zak'de'ron's true character and force Star Force to reassess the Dragons. The organization must prepare for a future enemy while maintaining the appearance of normal relations in the present.

Star Force calls Mak'to'ran to a meeting with consequences for both sides. What he encounters forces him to reconsider the war against humanity and the relationship between his people and the civilization they have been fighting.

The V'kit'no'sat commit nearly their entire empire to conquering Star Force. Determined to disprove Mak'to'ran's approach, the Crusaders seek a military victory before their human adversaries become too powerful through their alliance with the Uriti.

New developments involving the Uriti change the balance of Star Force's war against the V'kit'no'sat. Their effects extend far beyond the immediate fighting, carrying repercussions from the outer reaches of the galaxy to Itaru.

A destructive onslaught begins advancing through the galaxy. Its slow progress gives those in its path time to confront the approaching catastrophe, but does little to lessen the threat of eventual destruction hanging over them.

More than a hundred thousand years of growth have made Star Force the dominant power in the galaxy's rimward half. Yet old enemies remain hidden, waiting for the right opportunity to challenge its apparent supremacy.

An extended period of increasing peace and stability across the galaxy approaches its end. A developing chain of events threatens the established order, drawing Star Force into the uncertainty of what comes after its hard-won calm.

Star Force enters an era in which superweapons are becoming part of galactic warfare.

Left isolated amid wartime chaos, a Wass'mat system faces destruction by the lizards. Its inhabitants must make a difficult choice about their future as the wider conflict leaves them without the protection they need.

Coordinated attacks strike V'kit'no'sat colonies along the border, confronting the empire with an unexpected challenge. The Rim Consortium's offensive brings unwelcome surprises as the dinosaur civilization faces pressure across multiple vulnerable territories at once.

With the V'kit'no'sat war over, humanity's elite Archons pursue a new stage of development. Training and genetic engineering promise to transform them beyond their human origins, introducing abilities unlike anything the galaxy has previously encountered.

The Hadarak receive an answer to their appeal for assistance. As new power enters the struggle, the Triad begins to understand the scale of its opposition and the difficulty of fighting the galaxy's true rulers.

The Paladin find a way past the Sphere's barrier by growing forces from genetic material already inside. Their expanding invasion army brings them into confrontation with the Vargemma and opens a new stage of the conflict.

An agreement with the dragons promises access to their Uriti, but the exchange proves more complicated than expected. Star Force must navigate the difficulties surrounding a bargain whose terms are less straightforward than they initially appeared.

After escaping death, Star Force's troubleshooters uncover answers to lingering mysteries. Those revelations bring a different challenge into view, requiring them to turn from surviving the immediate danger toward confronting the problems that follow.

Star Force and the V'kit'no'sat must cooperate on a special project aimed at improving their fight against the Hadarak. Their shared challenge demands collaboration as they search for a more effective response to a common enemy.

Mak'to'ran has sent a message whose consequences may decide the future of his Era'tran people. As he awaits a response, the possibility of a renewed future competes with the threat of even darker circumstances.

A seemingly endless war keeps creating demand for new starship captains. Preparing the next generation of commanders becomes essential, as the quality of those reinforcements will shape the battles that established forces cannot fight alone.

Conflict erupts at Alpha Temple, bringing fresh danger to a struggle already under way. The arrival of two trailblazers adds another volatile element, intensifying the fighting and complicating the situation for those caught within it.

The Zak'de'ron mark the Zen'zat for death across the galaxy, extending the threat to their Ter'nat home colonies. With the V'kit'no'sat lacking resources and resolve, vulnerable communities face persecution with little prospect of protection.

Eldorat's attack and death at Itaru send unexpected consequences through the galaxy. Both the V'kit'no'sat and Zak'de'ron struggle with the aftermath while the Hadarak advance into their territory against increasingly limited resistance.

A mysterious dragon arrives from the galactic core with revelations about the Hadarak. The V'kit'no'sat must reconsider the nature of the enemy they face as their visitor exposes a wider reality behind the ongoing threat.

Paul and Sara search for a way out of Gamma Temple. Escaping is only part of their purpose, however, as they are determined to take something with them before they finally leave the temple behind.

Repeated Vargemma attacks leave Star Force unable to strike back effectively. A trailblazer or another Essence wielder must reach the Paladin and open the portals before the enemy can continue attacking the empire without facing retaliation.

The Vargemma are too powerful to control and too dangerous to trust without scrutiny. Cal-com develops a system called LITrpg to test volunteers, separating those worthy of acceptance from candidates whose inclusion could create new risks.

Rejected by the Elders and living in exile, Cal-com struggles with the judgment that left him adrift. As he begins to suspect their real motives, his unfinished journey opens into a new stage of his life.

Eldorat's death draws attention far beyond the V'kit'no'sat civil war. Hidden civilizations monitoring the galaxy through their scouts take notice, adding another dimension to events already reshaping the struggle against the Hadarak and its wider consequences.

As Star Force deals with problems on one front, fresh trouble approaches from an unexpected direction.

The Neofan break their agreement with Star Force, leaving Director Davis to respond. The breach forces him to confront a problem in the relationship between the two powers and determine how his organization should proceed.

Star Force's Grand Border is complete and holding, while its arrangement with the Neofan has benefited both sides. Against that backdrop of apparent stability, a new development threatens to shift the distribution of power across the galaxy.

Paul and Cal-com embark on a journey while the conflict with the Hadarak continues around them. Their departure unfolds against the backdrop of a war that remains active as they begin this next stage together.

The day of the Zak’de’ron departure arrives, bringing a significant change to Star Force’s galactic setting.

Changes in Paul begin to reveal their wider implications, bringing hidden information into the open. As new secrets emerge, Star Force faces a sharp change in direction that could transform the future its members have anticipated.

Paul-024 returns to explain the journey ahead to his fellow trailblazers. Communicating what he has learned proves difficult when they struggle to remain conscious long enough to understand the changes that now await them all.

The Founders finally arrive at the Temples, ending Star Force's period of anonymity. Contact with powers from beyond the galaxy forces the organization to confront a future that their long-anticipated appearance could transform in unpredictable ways.

Star Force reaches a pivotal moment in its history, with consequences extending beyond what the public knows.

Project Furya begins, opening a new phase in the continuing Star Force saga.

After 156,000 years of survival and growth, Star Force has united thousands of rescued alien races. Discovering that others achieved similar success before them reveals a terrible danger attached to the civilization they have built.

Star Force must seize the Gateways from the Hadarak in the densely populated galactic core. These gravitational routes enable travel between galaxies, making their capture and defense essential despite the monstrous Megaloids inhabiting the surrounding region.

Hadarak occupation strips a planet of nearly all animal life, leaving only tiny creatures able to hide where its forces cannot follow. Their relentless consumption transforms the world into a place inhabited almost entirely by Hadarak.

The return of the Reignor signals the beginning of the Temple Wars.

With successive invasions threatening the Milky Way, Paul leads a small expedition to Andromeda to sever enemy supply routes. Without a fleet of his own, he must build alliances and support a lasting Imperial foothold there.

The Empire discovers that earlier civilizations achieved similar prosperity before being destroyed by coordinated invasions. Armed with the warnings they left behind, its leaders must prepare for the same gauntlet and seek a way to break the cycle.

Enemy footholds threaten to open the Milky Way to further invading races while Paul finishes his Andromeda mission. Returning to oversee the Deebees, he also attempts to rescue survivors of a civilization devastated by an earlier Gauntlet War.

The Paladin seize a disputed planet whose feuding inhabitants obstruct vital wartime trade through Andromeda. Restoring access helps the struggle against the Asferja, but their refusal to return control provokes anger among the people they displaced.

With Admiral Gorgo removed, Grand Admiral Aatroxiss must restore supply lines and prevent disaster across leaderless systems. Resistance to his authority and disturbing discoveries at a research station draw his flagship into a deeper investigation.

The Gauntlet Wars seem to follow an unavoidable pattern of powerful races converging to destroy rising civilizations. Yet the invaders understand that victory is never certain, raising the possibility that this familiar cycle can be disrupted.

The Galactic Emperor offers his greatest enemy command of a failing frontier fleet. Aatroxiss accepts the chance to protect neglected worlds and build power, knowing alien invasion, imperial betrayal and the Frontier's own disorder could destroy him.

A Jaeger expedition bypasses the Grand Border and pushes into Star Force territory aboard a planet-sized Baseship. The Empire must wear down the massive vessel before its exploratory advance penetrates farther into the regions it defends.

Changing enemy tactics leave the Milky Way facing perpetual attacks from other galaxies. With survival alone offering no end to the war, the trailblazers search for a way to escape a strategic position resembling an endless Alamo.

The Emperor's daughters approach the Frontier with a stolen warfleet and a call for rebellion. Aatroxiss prepares to intercept them before their arrival can draw his territory into a dynastic struggle threatening the entire empire.

Alien invasions spread across Frontier worlds, aided by Imperial warships that should not exist. Short of supplies and trained forces, Aatroxiss must relieve Naugh while enemies work to shatter his fleet before he can consolidate control.

The Vitri invade Naugh after Aatroxiss breaks an agreement to save another people. Arriving to confront the crisis, he discovers a campaign intended to cripple the Frontier Fleet and invite further attacks on the empire's vulnerable worlds.

As coordinated invasions overwhelm the Frontier's limited defenses, Aatroxiss gains help from his former spymaster. Vincent investigates who is directing the attacks and where to strike, uncovering a threat more dangerous than the admiral's scattered enemies suggest.

After three years of relentless training under Morgan, Ginsi is beginning to recover her former abilities. A newly completed shield-draining prototype now requires her participation in a combat test, bringing her recovery into a dangerous operational setting.

Aatroxiss takes on an unexpected apprentice as war consumes the galaxy around the Green Empire. Meanwhile, Duke Westen moves to confront a rival admiral and plans a discussion with Aatroxiss that adds another complication to the conflict.

After the Galactic Empire fractures, Grand Admiral Aatroxiss tries to transform the surviving Frontier into a better state. Sabotage, raiders and covert alien intervention threaten his new Green Empire while the former Emperor remains entrenched nearby.

The fall of the Gangi Dynasty deepens political divisions across the galaxy. As the Emperor seeks unity and opponents turn toward Aatroxiss's Green Empire, a hidden power prepares to intervene and change the terms of the struggle.

Imperial soldiers begin defecting to the Green Empire, following civilians who have already fled the Emperor's rule. As the loss of ships accelerates, the Emperor resorts to deception in an effort to regain control before his forces unravel.

With major fighting paused, Aatroxiss tries to strengthen the Green Empire for future conflicts. New crises deny him time to rebuild, while another grand admiral's impending secession threatens to produce consequences no one has anticipated.

Aatroxiss rebuilds damaged worlds while his fleet remains unready for a larger war. An incident caused by two disobedient captains threatens the balance between rival empires and could force him into the Separatist War ahead of schedule.