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After a deadly gas drives humanity underground, scientists create children designed to survive the changed surface. Terry grows up inside this experiment, where harsh training and concealed information complicate the mission to reclaim the world.

Terry and Ludo escape captivity with an army pursuing them across the continent. Their journey north becomes a desperate effort to rescue Ludo's wife, even as the dangers of their shattered world keep closing in.

Three stories follow a shapeshifter tracking a dangerous child, a hospitalized farmer confronting a mysterious doorway, and a psychologist protecting a sentient machine. Their choices test fragile peace, the nature of reality, and the responsibility owed to unfamiliar forms of life.

The colony ship Eden carries thousands of sleeping settlers toward a new home, but deadly accidents threaten the voyage. Security officer Seth investigates the apparent failures while Adam Kadman's plans for humanity face an increasingly uncertain future.

Terry is stranded among ancient ruins on a distant world, troubled by voices he cannot explain. Back on Earth, Mei defies orders to investigate the rift, risking catastrophe in her search for answers.

Fugitive captain Jace Hughes and his crew search for Earth, a world most people consider a myth. A gifted child may guide them there, but protecting her brings them into conflict with the pursuing Union.

Jace Hughes and his crew continue their hunt for Earth while the Union and Sarkonian forces close in. Their base on Titan offers a foothold, but rival powers threaten to turn the search into a war.

Smuggler Jace Hughes accepts a passenger carrying a mysterious metal box, then discovers that armed ships want his cargo. The job draws his crew into a dangerous search connected to the supposedly mythical planet Earth.

War threatens the Everlasting as the Garden targets its leaders and failing defenses endanger millions. While Mei searches for a solution to the Variant, Terry travels through unfamiliar lands toward an artifact that could change the conflict.

After witnessing something terrible at their orphanage, Abigail and Clementine flee with nowhere safe to go. A new protector offers shelter among assassins, forcing the sisters to learn how to survive without losing themselves.

Jace Hughes brings refugees, farmers, and families to Earth aboard the Galactic Dawn. Building a colony gives his crew a new purpose, but settling the recovered world exposes dangers that their passengers never expected.

A transport captain's effort to protect a child has drawn him into a war between empires. Jace Hughes gathers ships and allies for a confrontation near Earth, where his crew faces enemies with overwhelming resources.

Jace Hughes leads a growing force in the search for Earth, but an unfamiliar enemy threatens the expedition. Neither the Union nor the Sarkonians explain this danger, leaving his crew facing something far harder to understand.

With his ship's engines disabled, Jace Hughes follows a transmission toward a nearby planet linked to Earth. Its warning to stay away proves ominous as snowstorms, predators, and an absent colony complicate the crew's investigation.

Halek Cain's failing enhancements send his crew searching for a concealed Reaper facility beyond an uncharted slip tunnel. The Union wants its secrets buried, turning his need for repairs into a dangerous race for survival.

Halek Cain helps an exodus fleet seek refuge on a quarantined planet in hostile space. An assault on an ancient shipyard exposes a new nightmare, threatening the people he is trying to protect and their fragile future.

Halek Cain needs rare material from Roxo III to repair the augmentations keeping him alive. With the Union pursuing him and Elise in danger, a rescue mission competes with his increasingly urgent struggle to survive.

Halek Cain and his fugitive crew respond to a refugee ship amid the wreckage of an ancient battlefield. Their investigation raises questions about unfamiliar technology while a hostile force threatens those seeking their help.

A corporate executive's murder goes undiscovered for years before Arbiter Tycho Barrett investigates. In a solar system dominated by corporations and technology, the case draws him toward uncomfortable questions about androids, identity, and what makes someone human.

Jace Hughes explores a captured Celestial ship and searches for answers on a lost colony. With Earth facing invasion, he must bring its people together with former enemies to confront a threat none can handle alone.

Sabotage destroys a colony's fauna dome, and suspicion falls on its refugees, threatening a violent split. Jace Hughes also receives a mysterious distress signal, leaving him to investigate both problems before tensions spiral out of control.

Jace Hughes needs the Sarkonian Emperor's resources to strengthen the fight against the Celestials. His fragile partnership with the Union complicates that mission, as former enemies must find a way to cooperate against a common threat.

Jace Hughes leads a joint armada through an enormous slip tunnel in pursuit of the Celestials. Beyond it lies an unfamiliar enemy whose technology and brutality test the alliance's ability to withstand a wider war.

Jace Hughes searches an artificial metal planet for the lost Cognitive Athena. Exploring its depths brings his crew closer to answers, but an intelligence watching their progress makes the investigation more dangerous than they anticipated.

Jace Hughes awakens aboard an unfamiliar ship without memories of his crew. As he struggles to understand his situation, a rescue effort and an enemy's plans threaten to draw him back into the battle for Earth.

Arbiters Gabriel Anderson and Tycho Barrett enter a darkened tower on Venus after its security androids turn against civilians. Hundreds of thousands of residents are at risk, and the investigators must discover what caused the deadly breach.

Alphonse Malloy's unusual instincts let him notice dangers and connections other people miss. Those abilities could help him protect people, but the secrets behind his perception and the trouble surrounding him complicate the choice.

After a year of training, Alphonse Malloy faces the final assignment that could make him a Constable. His mentor Dorian leads him into the Deadlands, where old enemies test his abilities and demand answers.

A soldier left for dead becomes a fugitive alongside her unit's medic when two governments brand them enemies. Searching for the truth reveals a conspiracy with consequences across the galaxy, forcing them to risk everything for answers.

Eight-year-old Alisaar Reynolds can travel by starlight and seemingly bend the universe to his wishes, with his family always nearby. When strange events disturb his reality and a distant woman calls his name, he begins questioning the world he believes he knows.

Soldier turned rebel Alyss Cortez infiltrates an elite military black site that could cripple her enemies. Cut off from support and stripped of familiar resources, she must confront a plan to tighten the government's control.

Enhanced veteran Halek Cain is offered freedom if he rescues a scientist from one of the galaxy's most dangerous prisons. The mission puts the last Reaper's combat abilities against threats his captors have not explained.

Deserters Alyss Cortez and Farah Shahi use a stolen stealth ship for rescue missions while opposing Vice Admiral Kaska. A terrorist attack on Solaras pulls them deeper into a rebellion and challenges their plans for justice.

Lucia, daughter of her tribe's Director, enters the trial that will determine his replacement. In a lost world shaped by a genetics facility, dangerous tunnels and mysterious artifacts make her path to leadership a struggle for survival.

An experiment using supposedly extinct Sansein DNA brings Halek Cain's refugee fleet into a dangerous encounter. Alien identity, mistreatment, and hidden enemies complicate first contact as he tries to protect the people depending on him.

Halek Cain's crew flees Vice Admiral Nebs through slip tunnels when a distress call interrupts their escape. Helping the Bold Freedom risks exposure, but innocent lives and obligations to old friends make abandoning it difficult.

Halek Cain tries to find a home for his refugee fleet while an Alon scout lays a trap. Meanwhile, an experiment reviving alien life creates powerful creatures, complicating efforts to protect refugees and bring civilizations together.

With the Alon Empire attacking Yansden, Halek Cain faces another obstacle as the Black Phoenix drains his resources. Running a blockade to find Maglan may offer a way to free the Sansein and secure needed allies.

Cyborg soldier Warren Reotis faces renewed threats after fighting for his colony's freedom. Help from the Commonwealth and technology recovered from an abandoned mothership could change the struggle, but other cyborgs still need to be liberated.

Warren Prescott undergoes an experimental procedure to restore his missing leg, then awakens centuries later in a synthetic combat body. Missing memories and an alien war leave him fighting to free himself and fellow cyborgs from enslavement.

Former Union operative Jack Burner is kidnapped during a dental appointment and ordered to assassinate an admiral. A mysterious woman's involvement complicates his escape as the scheme threatens to ignite a war along the border.

Jack Burner and his team pursue the surviving members of a trafficking operation protected by powerful officials. Their targets know they are coming, forcing the group to act before government connections turn the hunters into fugitives.

Jack sets out to eliminate remnants of a trafficking empire but finds his intended target already dead and missing a shoe. Investigating a possible conspiracy or serial killer leads his team toward corruption within organizations they once protected.

A coded message from Jack's Union past draws him and Sara to a meeting where nobody appears. Their investigation uncovers a trafficking ring that erases women's memories, with connections reaching from criminal gangs into the highest levels of government.

Section 9 operative Tycho Barrett must extract a witness from the divided Martian city of Hellas. Framed for a leader's murder, his scattered team crosses hostile territory while corporate forces, bounty hunters, and technological monsters pursue them.

Soldier Kent-9464 serves as security chief aboard a colony ship bound for a supposedly empty planet. Awakened from stasis during an alien attack, he must use his neglected combat training to defend the passengers and their future.

A crime wave engulfs Taurus Station after its leaders fall, and Deputy Gage Walker's investigations provoke a powerful syndicate. With a new team, he must infiltrate the organization and uncover its plans before it takes control of the station.

Deputy Gage Walker investigates attacks on Taurus Station's mining rigs and discovers a criminal operation beyond the local authorities' expectations. Working with a well-connected renegade, he follows the threat into dangerous space to protect the increasingly unstable station.

Deputy Gage Walker searches for a witness who could expose the forces destabilizing Taurus Station. Reaching them means breaking into a heavily guarded secret prison, where his team must confront criminals determined to preserve their control.

Rookie deputy Gage Walker is assigned to protect a mining magnate's daughter on Taurus Station. When ravager gangs target her, he must uncover their motives while proving himself capable of enforcing the law in the dangerous Deadlands.

Halek Cain searches for the Black Phoenix, a possible superweapon that could save his people from two attacking fleets. With a new rival pursuing him, the hunt takes his friends through space, city battlefields, and deep jungle.

The Exodus Ark reaches Kainos, but its destination is already inhabited. A signal leads Kent and his team to the Volcuri, whose advanced technology and ancient ruins conceal dangers linked to the enemy that attacked their ship.

After suffering severe wounds during a mission on Europa, Tycho Barrett receives cybernetic augmentation. He and Section 9 must recover a ship carrying illegal technology that could expose their hidden enemy before the evidence disappears again.

An analyst warns Tycho Barrett of a plot to assassinate the Sol Federation's leader, implicating powerful government officials. Section 9 must prevent the killing and uncover those responsible while considering whether revealing the truth could provoke interplanetary war.

As the Celestials devastate Alliance colonies, Jace Hughes searches a distant ringworld for a weakness in their power. The alien technology that transformed them may hold answers, but the approaching enemy gives his crew little time to investigate.

With the Celestials approaching Earth, Jace Hughes must unite the galaxy for humanity's final defense. Soldiers, criminals, rival governments, and rebels must overcome old disputes before political divisions destroy their chance of surviving the enemy's arrival.

Jace Hughes travels into Sarkonian territory to find a woman who can unlock the Gate of Eternity. Her knowledge may reveal a weapon against the Celestials, but the galaxy's ongoing siege makes every discovery and encounter dangerous.

Jace Hughes accepts a job transporting a wanted criminal, only to see smugglers kill his target. The victim's connection to a famous renegade draws Jace into a deadly confrontation as he tries to salvage the assignment.

Renegade Jace Hughes discovers an item valuable enough to erase his debts, but selling it could trigger war between galactic empires. With assassins, governments, and other renegades hunting the prize, he has little time to choose.

Unable to leave Kainos, the Exodus Ark's colonists must ally with the endangered Volcuri. Kent's team searches their lost history for a defense against the First, whose forces threaten to turn both peoples into mind-controlled slaves.

Archaeologist Hank Murphy activates an alien artifact on the Moon and is pulled into a war-torn region of the galaxy. Transformed into a stronger, faster stranger called an Orphan, he must survive among others with similarly dangerous powers.

Stranded aboard a sabotaged ship, Hank Murphy and his friends face a frozen planet, an invasion, and an uncertain double agent. Carrying a key to valuable technology, Murphy must escape and return to defend the rebellion.

Halek Cain escapes a failing life pod onto an unfamiliar station in a deteriorating orbit. Discovering that ten years have passed, he searches for his friends while damaged, alone, and surrounded by enemies in a ruined civilization.

Murph and Jack search for the mysterious Fifth Gate, believing it could be their greatest discovery. Another powerful Orphan pursues the same prize, forcing Murph and his team to prepare for a confrontation over something they barely understand.

Badly damaged Halek Cain seeks someone capable of rebuilding him while a general's clone army closes in. He and his friends must reach Oroth and locate Elise's forces before an unfamiliar threat overwhelms their desperate resistance.

Stranded in another galaxy after a slip tunnel collapses, Cole Riker's crew discovers a lost Earth seed ship with survivors aboard. Its apparent perfection raises troubling questions as he searches for a way to escape and return home.

Soldiers at a Union black-site planet receive an unexpected ship with no authorized arrival notice. Unsure whether its crew represents an inspection or another threat, they face a confrontation that brings the Renegade into their tightly controlled world.

Halek Cain refuses to abandon an allied unit trapped in a war-ravaged system, despite his own fleet's condition. Facing an alien intelligence and a general's clone army, he seeks help from a mysterious creature left behind on Maglan.

With the Overlords controlling the Solar System, Lance and Sofia must prepare Uplink Squadron for a wider galactic war. Fighting the technologically superior Kardons raises doubts about whether their powerful new allies have told them the truth.

Lance Baker realizes Earth may be fighting for the wrong side, but the Overlords control humanity's home system. He must secretly reach the Kardons and negotiate an alliance without exposing Earth to devastating retaliation from its supposed allies.

After a joint human and synthetic-intelligence fleet defeats the Overlords, commanders Lance Baker and Sofia Jimenez prepare for retaliation. They must train new forces and resolve tensions with their allies before a stronger enemy fleet returns to threaten Earth.

Captain Alyss Cortez and her rebel crew pursue Adrian Kaska rather than fleeing him. His loyal army threatens to tear humanity apart, forcing Alyss to decide what sacrifices she can make to prevent another destructive war.

Trapped in a failing starship amid a spreading galactic threat, Halek Cain and his friends prepare to fight back. Reassembling his team, he pursues an enemy trying to seize the secret of the Darkness before survival becomes impossible.

After brutal Union training, Halek Cain is sent to find two missing classmates. Discovering that his handlers intend more than arrest, he must survive a double cross while learning to work with his newly installed artificial intelligence.

Captain Alyss Cortez considers leaving rebellion behind during an uneasy galactic peace. When her organization is blamed for terrorism and its leader disappears, her crew must uncover the truth before the fragile Alliance collapses into another war.

Halek Cain learns that General Scheid is seeking dictatorial control over Oroth and its vast resources. He and his friends must infiltrate the enemy homeworld and prevent that seizure of power before a final confrontation becomes unavoidable.

An alien carrier escapes Earth's defensive battle, leaving Lance Baker and Sofia Jimenez to rebuild a devastated Uplink Squadron. They must discover the attackers' homeworld before reinforcements return, despite political demands threatening to separate their team.

Ex-smuggler Cole Riker searches for alien salvage under strict parole conditions. A routine recovery mission takes him into an unknown sector, where discovering an ancient alien lifeform could transform humanity's future if he survives the consequences.

Following an unexplained alien attack near Jupiter, Earth's nations combine their technology to investigate the invaders. New systems let pilots connect directly to space fighters, giving Uplink Squadron an advantage as it heads toward humanity's next war.

Stranded far from home, Cole and his crew discover a civilization oppressed by Eternal leader August Walton. A brewing rebellion may offer answers, but escaping with his people means confronting a seed ship vastly stronger than their own resources.

Lex accompanies her father Jace Hughes to a distant station with instructions to stay out of trouble. Helping a girl threatened by street thieves exposes a dangerous secret, leaving her to challenge injustice alone before her father expects her back.

Mark Allen calls a recruitment number printed in an old comic book and discovers its space war is real. Taken to a distant station to train as a Nova Slinger, he enters a galaxy strangely familiar with Earth’s vanished eighties culture.

Boat captain Owen Lake discovers an advanced spacecraft beneath Lake Superior while rescuing a scientist. Its artificial intelligence saves his companions but keeps them frozen, demanding that an enhanced Owen lead its ancient war if he wants them freed.

Mark Allen’s squad investigates a distress signal on a remote world and finds the crashed ship of a notorious pilot believed dead. Strange psychic energy and unanswered questions about the old war turn their mission into a dangerous challenge to accepted history.

An ancient war machine threatens Maglan, sending Halek Cain to a remote world in search of the hidden device Oculus. Its power may save his people, but using it could require sacrificing his closest friend.

Scientists connected to Nova technology disappear while Rylos Station struggles to recover from attack. Mark’s team follows the trail toward advanced aliens responsible for the ships’ power, seeking answers that might preserve hope in a war grinding down their allies.

Mark recruits new human pilots while struggling with what he has learned about the war’s future. When four stars appear within the Uncharted Dark, his squad ventures into enemy territory, seeking an explanation that could change the course of the conflict.

Halek Cain's retirement ends when attackers burn his farm and a colony calls for help. Reassembling his team, he investigates an ancient city whose excavation has unleashed a danger reaching far beyond a single planet.

Rylos Squadron discovers a forbidden facility containing the remains of an old Ascendancy experiment. Mark also fights for the freedom of a former enemy drone, while a hidden third force threatens to exploit the war and conquer both sides.