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Marine sergeant Spartan leads his armored platoon to defend New Carlos on Proxima Prime. As biomechanical troops besiege the city, insurgent agents spread revolt through the Confederacy's remaining colonies, threatening an already weakened interstellar government.

This illustrated training manual introduces German longsword combat through computer-generated demonstrations of techniques. Drawing primarily on Ringeck, with material from Meyer, Dobringer, and Talhoffer, it examines weapons and historical manuscripts for martial artists and reenactors.

This illustrated fictional survival manual considers an outbreak involving both infected runners and reanimated undead. Its topics include recognizing zombies, first aid, escape, household defense, supplies, transport, and plans for rebuilding civilization after the catastrophe.

During the D-Day invasion, Sergeant Smith's airborne unit enters occupied France to seize bridges behind enemy lines. Their mission changes when they discover a terrifying German secret weapon capable of turning the war against the Allies.

A companion to the first Zompoc manual, this guide concentrates on weapons, tactics, and long-term survival in an imagined zombie apocalypse. It explores improvised combat and organizing groups to defend or expand their territory.

One year after the zombie outbreak, the undead vastly outnumber the living. While some survivors struggle to last another hour, newly formed communities test different methods of survival and face the possibility of losing everything.

Six people around the world confront the first days of a zombie plague. A researcher, office worker, Marine, police officer, reenactor, and gamer each draw on different skills as familiar surroundings become deadly traps.

Ebenezer Scrooge faces a zombie-infested London in this reworking of Dickens's Christmas story. Visits from the undead Jacob Marley and three Christmas ghosts challenge his selfishness while revealing a city desperately in need of a defender.

With the Confederacy losing colonies to insurgents, Lieutenant Spartan leads an elite platoon back to the Bone Mill. Their intelligence could guide Admiral Jarvis's counteroffensive, but inexperienced reinforcements must help turn a failing war around.

After an apocalypse destroys modern civilization, Synne studies ancient texts to help the League recover science and technology. A ruthless attack takes her from Haven, leaving her determined to avenge her family and confront their enemies.

An enemy fleet threatens the gateway to Terra Nova, the Confederacy's most important planet. Admiral Jarvis must choose between reclaiming lost colonies and defending the Anomaly, a decision that could determine the outcome of the war.

An uneasy calm settles over Proxima Centauri after colonies abandon the Confederacy for the Church of Echidna. With Spartan and General Rivers missing and presumed executed, the remaining defenders face uncertainty over whether peace can last.

Illegal pit fighter Spartan chooses Marine service over imprisonment and begins demanding training. When religious insurgency becomes revolution on Proxima Prime, he and other inexperienced recruits must defend a planet and its threatened orbital station.

Ten years after a zombie plague, humanity's last communities face another struggle for survival. A fortified European town, wandering American survivors, and a southern flotilla confront threats that could destroy their remaining hopes for a future.

Lord Cyrus sends the Black Legion through a deadly maelstrom toward a rich target inside the Median Empire. Xenophon and Glaucon face divided loyalties as internal disputes threaten to destroy the mercenary expedition before battle begins.

Exiled Xenophon joins the Black Legion, seeking escape from the state that threatened his family. Alongside mercenaries with conflicting ambitions, he enters the Median Empire, where superior weapons offer little preparation for the carnage ahead.

An Alliance expedition to Helios becomes a diplomatic crisis when its flagship is attacked and sent toward the inhabited planet. Elsewhere, a prisoner aboard a Biomech ship dreams of escape and revenge against his captors.

A spacebridge opens the Orion Nebula to Alliance explorers, including retired Marines Spartan and Teresa Morato. Discoveries of abandoned machines and destroyed civilizations force humanity to choose between abandoning new riches and confronting an unknown enemy.

Spartan's commando raid goes wrong when a Raider ship disappears through an unknown Rift with his team aboard. An expedition toward the mysterious Helios nexus follows, unaware that a centuries-old threat waits for its arrival.

Peace appears to have returned after the Confederacy's collapse, but ships begin vanishing near Hyperion. Spartan, Teresa, and an Alliance expedition investigate the jungle world's hidden secrets before the remnants of their old enemy strike again.

Xenophon and the Black Legion join Lord Cyrus's forces for a decisive confrontation at Cunaxa Secundus. Facing the emperor's gathered warlords and armies, the mercenaries enter a battle that will determine their future and the empire's fate.

Biomech invasion fleets advance into Helios, threatening every world in the system. Alliance troops and ships rush to reinforce their allies while Spartan and Teresa Morato build an unusual military force among humanity's old worlds.

As Helios prepares for the approaching Biomech War, Spartan reaches an isolated, distrustful Earth. Enemy attacks cut contact with Mars, while Teresa Morato and Admiral Churchill prepare an ambitious operation to strengthen the Alliance's defenses.

After a disastrous gamble, the Black Legion retreats through hostile imperial territory with its officers massacred. Xenophon must curb the survivors' desire for revenge and find a route home before the emperor's pursuing forces overwhelm them.

Alliance troops deploy to Eos to fight Dictator Lyssk's insurgents, placing Jack Morato amid bombings and ambushes. The campaign strains a fragile alliance that must survive if the worlds of Helios are to prepare for greater danger.

An ancient prophecy warns the Alliance of a returning enemy as revolution on Helios becomes a brutal military coup. An approaching alien fleet intensifies the crisis, forcing newly assembled troops and warships into an uncertain intervention.

Spartan's Interstellar Assault Brigade confronts an enormous vessel threatening the T'Karan colonies after a destroyer disappears. Their rescue mission becomes a fight for survival against an ancient intelligence lurking within the apparently derelict spacecraft.

Veteran warrior Spartan lives on the Alliance's fringes after devastating war. When two friends are captured while supplying settlers on Karnak, he mobilizes an elite fighting force and risks a private war to bring them home.

The battered Black Legion flees toward the Sea of Fire, a dangerous frontier of storms and scarce supplies. Xenophon must devise a way through while rival leaders undermine cooperation and the emperor gathers forces for pursuit.

The Biomechs prepare to cross the unstable Black Rift with overwhelming forces. Six allied races defend devastated worlds and battered fleets, knowing another assault could leave them too weakened to withstand the invasion still to come.

An impregnable border fortress blocks the Black Legion's escape from the Median Empire. Xenophon must find a way through its defenses, aware that retreat means facing the emperor and attack could trap his exhausted forces.

Biomech forces spread across inhabited worlds from immense fortified Arks, conducting a war of extermination. Alliance commanders gather remaining forces while Spartan and Teresa Morato seek help from an ancient race against their shared enemy.

Nate's squadron joins elite alien pilots aboard the battleship Furiosa for a critical mission. Drawing on gaming experience and recent combat, the young pilots must help a fragile coalition face the Star Empire's overwhelming forces.

War spreads through the Tenth Quadrant as powerful factions refuse to intervene for fear of endangering their own territory. Spartan and his elite fighters become the desperate defenders' hope against a conflict threatening many inhabited worlds.

Gifted gamer Nate joins five cadets for a competition in the Byotai Empire, but mutiny turns their visit into war. Aboard the damaged Relentless, they must learn to fly real fighters to defend the survivors.

After saving Relentless, Nate and his fellow gamers face being returned to their studies. A shortage of pilots gives them another chance: reform Knighthawk Squadron and join Admiral Churchill's fleet on a dangerous secret operation.

Nate flies with Knighthawk Squadron as the Star Empire devastates the Byotai realm. Admiral Churchill's small battlegroup shelters its last surviving prince and attempts an audacious escape that could rally loyalists before their enemy completes its conquest.

The Black Legion reaches Trebizond expecting safety, only to find another war backed by the Median Empire. Xenophon commits his ships to its defense, seeing a final chance to confront those who murdered his family.

Nate's squadron joins an elite battle fleet on a secret mission behind enemy lines. An ancient weapon threatens the Alliance, and Nate must train rookie pilots to support an assault led by Colonel Gun and Spartan.

Spartan's mercenaries and militia prepare to attack Montu, the enemy capital on divided Karnak. The arrival of a huge reinforcement fleet disrupts their plans and threatens to overwhelm the rebels before they can secure victory.

Twins Syala and Arana face a massacre when slavers attack the Skylla Research Facility. Amid soldiers and monstrous creatures, they encounter Zhang Wei, a black-armored mercenary whose refusal to surrender offers a chance of survival.

The Black Widows visit the transport ship Monterey to replenish supplies and collect payment. While Syala searches for news of her missing sister, something that escaped Skylla with them begins stalking victims aboard the ship.

Stranded at Kharybdis 1 with dwindling funds and a damaged ship, the Black Widows lose an artifact-retrieval contract to rival mercenaries. Syala attempts to steal the contract's details, hoping to prove herself and secure the reward.

A crippled transport ship in the Kharybdis debris field promises valuable salvage, but Syala seeks information about her missing sister. The arrival of a familiar warship turns the Black Widows' operation into a fight against a superior opponent.

Medusa's damage forces the Black Widows to seek help at the Angel Salvage Facility on Euryale. Investigating its owner's dangerous connections, Syala discovers a conspiracy that threatens her comrades and the Confederacy they travel through.

Returning to Alpha Three Anchorage, the Black Widows find their home engulfed in battle. Syala hopes to follow a lead about her sister, but the crew must join unreliable allies in an operation to retake the installation.

Nate investigates a mysterious signal from the supposedly abandoned Kalar Anchorage and discovers a battle underway. Refugees and wounded soldiers shelter inside as Orion forces threaten to overwhelm the station before the Alliance can respond.

Spartan's forces retreat underground as growing enemy reinforcements threaten to overwhelm their exhausted Byotai allies. Far away, Commander Gun prepares a rescue flotilla, but an attack from within endangers the mission before it can begin.

In a twenty-first century dominated by victorious Nazis and their allies, resistance grows in North America. New York's freedom fighters confront occupying Reich troops and enormous walking war machines, struggling to challenge an apparently overwhelming military order.

Hired by the Confederate Navy, the Black Widows infiltrate the pleasure colony Teumessia 13 during a diversionary assault. Syala wants to prove herself, but the hunt for a renegade general becomes a dangerous struggle to escape.

Enslaved aboard the privateer Rising Sun, Arana faces a new ordeal when her captors breach a Confederate blockade. Forced into an assault against planetary defenses, she struggles to survive without becoming an instrument of her enemies.

Pirates surround the Rising Sun while Arana remains imprisoned aboard it. As attackers attempt to seize the vessel, she must choose whether to resist the boarding force or turn against the captors who keep her enslaved.

Captured Black Widows await sacrifice inside Teumessia Pleasure Colony while a wounded Syala prepares to rescue them. Elsewhere, Arana is forced to fight for spectators, and survival increasingly demands a violence she has never possessed before.

After surviving combat on Astarte V, Arana is transported to Agora as a slave. Isolated among hostile captors and deadly native creatures, she learns new survival skills and begins planning an escape regardless of its cost.

As Solarium City prepares to join the new Alliance, dignitaries gather for an important treaty ceremony. The Morgan sisters arrive along different paths, unaware that the floating city will bring them together amid gathering danger.

Nate and his friends join a tour aboard the Alliance's powerful new battleship Dreadnought. When Captain Gaunt plans to provoke a war against people Nate considers friends, the cadets must weigh loyalty against the possibility of mutiny.

The Star Empire sends its armadas toward the Alliance border, threatening a battle for which the defenders are unprepared. Spartan's mercenaries and robot soldiers must respond while the enemy holds a deceptive final weapon in reserve.

After disastrous defeats force the Alliance back to Helios, Nate returns to find its fleet preparing for invasion. His squadron joins warriors and mercenaries from several worlds as the Star Empire's approaching forces threaten the gateway to Alliance territory.

New York's resistance prepares for a Reich counteroffensive after its first victory. A severe snowstorm cannot stop enemy mobilization, while Waffen SS units hunt collaborators and the rebels face an assault involving powerful weapons and machines.

Admiral Churchill commands the heavily armed starcarrier Ark Royal and its experienced crew when the Great Uprising begins. Sudden violence tears through the battle group as former comrades turn against one another in a pivotal wartime engagement.

Xenophon and Princess Kyniska enter the Kerme Nebula to secure worlds that have fallen silent. Their rescue mission becomes a struggle for survival against daemonic legions and devastating creatures that threaten to undo the Terrans’ hard-won gains.

A devastating Imperial attack drives King Agesilaus and his commanders toward revenge against Tissaphernes. As the Terrans prepare a decisive assault, their enemy gathers allied warlords and devises a trap intended to destroy them and capture their king.

In 1898, Jack crashes a stolen flying machine into a battle at Khartoum. Transported with soldiers into a distorted parallel world, he encounters floating cities and an aerial empire that steals slaves and technology from other realities.

After securing a costly foothold against the Median Empire, the Terrans face an overwhelming counterattack. Princess Kyniska and General Xenophon search an unexplored system for an ancient weapon that could change the war before their enemy claims it.

As Terran colonies evacuate before the Median Empire, King Agesilaus proposes a preemptive strike rather than surrender. He and his warrior sister lead the assault, unaware that the enemy’s God King is assembling powerful forces and a deadly counterplan.

During an uprising on Kerberos, the elite Tigers secure the civilian outpost Gemini and prepare its ruins for defense. Religious zealots and rumors of monstrous creatures herald an approaching assault unlike the soldiers have faced before.

Spartan is still recovering from severe injuries when a new campaign against the Guardians suffers devastating losses. With allies reluctant to help, he prepares a powerful hybrid battlecruiser for a rescue operation his depleted forces can scarcely support.

Academy graduates Nate and Billy return to the upgraded carrier Relentless and rejoin Knighthawk Squadron. Their deployment to the Rim reveals a threat involving an old enemy as the Alliance approaches another dangerous internal conflict.

An armada led by the enormous dreadnought Starfire devastates worlds and threatens Spartan's Alliance fleet. He calls on Syala and the Black Widows, joining other allies in an ambitious plan while populations evacuate ahead of the enemy.

Captain Richardson leads British tanks into an assault during the First World War, but his surviving vehicle becomes trapped before German trenches. Immobilized in mud, its crew must defend their armored shelter against a sustained enemy siege.

Knighthawk Squadron leads the assault on the Centauri Rim, using real and virtual combat skills against separatist forces. Their target is an apparently impregnable fortress called the Rock, guarded by warships, pirates and an anti-alien movement.

Gravely wounded while boarding an enemy battleship, Marine Valentine receives a chance to return to combat. She must prove herself among the Novas, an experimental unit of cybernetic soldiers commanded by the enhanced Jotnar Captain Olik.

With Alliance forces retreating from a Ski'lig invasion, Valentine and the Novas help defend Deimos. Its Spacebridge controls the enemy's access to reinforcements, making the Martian moon the focus of a desperate siege alongside Marines and civilian militia.

Valentine and the Novas return to occupied Epsilon Eridani with an Alliance armada commanded by General Rivers. The technologically advanced Ski'ligs defend their conquests through aerial attacks and powerful warships, leaving the Novas to tackle the toughest assignments.

A distress signal draws Spartan's battered forces back into action as Horta seeks to revive the ancient Trusskan Empire. Survivors of conquered worlds gather in a fortified sanctuary, hoping a coalition of Trusskans, humans and Byotai can reach them.

Disgraced mecha pilot Glory discovers a sentient robotic warrior during her exile to mining work. Pursued by armored enemies seeking the machine, she gains a route back to military service as a hidden adversary prepares the region for war.

On Spascia, Sergeant Stryker's commandos drop into battle against advancing Biomech legions and war machines. As the Alliance's defenders retreat, their assignment is to delay the enemy long enough for a final defensive line to form.

With the Alliance replaced by the Terran Union, Nate and the Knighthawks become hunted rebels. Reports of atrocities in the Prometheus system send them into danger, where their investigation reveals a secret involving General Rivers and an old enemy.

Stryker's commandos join an armored assault across no man's land toward the Biomech landing grounds. While Marines defend bridges and mountains, the attacking soldiers attempt to stop the flow of enemy reinforcements with a dangerous breakthrough.

Private William Richards fights North Vietnamese troops in the A Shau Valley as an ancient creature begins hunting both sides. When its victims return as killers, enemy soldiers must consider cooperation against the jungle's supernatural threat.

Six years after surviving the Ky Lan, Billy Richards joins a rescue mission to a secret facility on Con Son. Its last transmission reported an attack, and the damaged veteran must confront the creature that destroyed his platoon.

After the Xeno War, humanity sends a captured alien warship toward the enemy's homeworld. Duke Jackson and Makarov awaken from hibernation to find intruders aboard, forcing the Cyber Commandos into a fight far from Earth.

Before attacking the Xeno homeworld, the Cyber Commandos answer a distant outpost's plea for help. Sergeant Jackson and Lieutenant Makarov lead a defensive mission against marauders armed with strange weapons and formidable fighting machines.

The Cyber Commandos launch their invasion of Serpentis Three, determined to avenge Earth's losses. Alien fighters and a violent storm threaten the landing force, while the planet's defenders prove more cunning than the attackers expected.

The Cyber Commandos advance toward the alien capital in three columns, with their captured warship providing support from orbit. Unexpected enemy tactics turn the offensive into a struggle for survival as their invasion begins to unravel.

With a direct assault on the Xeno fortress promising disaster, General Howe orders a diversion by regular infantry. The Cyber Commandos must use untested powered wingsuits to strike its center while their warship waits overhead.

Discovering that Serpentis Three was merely a military outpost, Jackson and Makarov pursue the warlord responsible for Earth's devastation. Their captured battlecruiser heads toward a heavily defended world orbiting a dark star for the final confrontation.

Lady Rohildr returns to the Kyrios Islands to find a warlord seeking control of her divided homeland. With her remaining warriors, northern mercenaries, and a sacred relic, she attempts to unite resistance and reclaim peace.

Nate's first mission leading a flight in Knighthawk Squadron sends him into a desperate raid as Hyperion faces invasion. With the Alliance nearly defeated, his pilots must attempt an operation that could change the war.

Reinfried and his uncle accidentally prevent a princess's assassination in the Golden City. As an ancient empire's armies invade her homeland, Princess Ikarae gathers an unlikely alliance of fighters, sailors, and a mysterious magical adept.

A martial arts gathering at a Welsh college becomes a battle for survival when resurrected warriors emerge from its catacombs. Modern experts in historical swordplay must confront the undead army and the power commanding it.

Rebuilt after the devastating battle on Deimos, Valentine returns determined to avenge her fallen comrades. As the Novas and their fleet prepare to strike back, she struggles with the increasingly blurred boundary between human and machine.

Vrokan forces overrun the Hellenika System until the battered Commonwealth fleet must defend the remaining planet of Kretos. Soldiers, students, and civilians confront elite landing troops while aging battleships fight to prevent further reinforcements from reaching the surface.

A mysterious pretender takes power in Noverio, trapping its garrison and threatening a wider war. Heroes from distant lands converge on the city, divided between overthrowing the new patriarch and accepting his promised refuge.

The Vrokan Empire breaks its alliance with the Communist Confederation and invades Byelorus Primaris. Soldiers and families trapped in the Brest-Litousk Stronghold resist a siege intended to demonstrate that defiance is futile, turning the fortress into a battle of endurance.

The isolated Commonwealth garrison at Tobruk withstands bombardment on a desert planet, buying time for a counteroffensive. As relief forces advance, a respected enemy commander known as the Desert Fox prepares to prevent them from reclaiming the world.

The Commonwealth discovers an enormous Vrokan warship preparing to enter open space and threaten its vital supply convoys. Hastily assembled battleships, carriers, and escorts must intercept the heavily armored Bismarck before it transforms the course of the war.

Vrokan forces advance through Space Fortress Tallinn toward Leningrad, aided by infiltrators inside the defenses. As refugees and damaged ships flee, soldiers and civilians race to fortify the city planet before the invasion threatens the Confederation’s survival.