Invasion

The Orion War

De: Kali Altsoba

Narrado por: Virtual Voice

War has returned to the Thousand Worlds of the Orion spur for the first time in 300 years. Fleets are moving, planets are bombarded, dropships are landing. Storms of blood and metal, malice and murder are racing across invaded Genève and four more startled Krevan Republic worlds.

Jan Wysocki is a failed officer, a washout from Aral Academy who ran away from his first ever combat. But he’s in command of over 300 fighters, looking only to him. He must overcome a lifetime of self-doubt to lead a cutoff and ragtag Madjenik Company on a trek to reach the last place of refuge on invaded Genève, if it’s even still there, the all wooden Toruń City over 2,000 klics away, deep in the northern forest zone. He doesn’t think he can do it.

Zofia Jablonski is younger, more confident, more ruthless toward the enemy, and brutally honest with Jan. She saved him when he was wounded in the leg as he ran away, his back to the enemy. She graduated top of her class. She's a consummate military professional who exudes confidence and competence. Not like him at all. They attract, they grate, they fight an overwhelming enemy.

Can they work together? Can they lead Madjenik Company to refuge? What then? Is there any way off a burning world? Any chance to defy an invader so much more powerful in every way? Will they find some way to make peace no more, forever? With the enemy and each other.

On the other side, a cynical Imperator Pyotr Shaka Oetkert III conspires with Takeshi Watanabe to launch a small war, which quickly threatens to engulf all the Thousand Worlds as it spreads. The iron spider Takeshi is already weaving webs of deceits within deceits. He’s at the center of it all, manipulating intelligence, conspiracies, armies and empires, hoary mystical religions and all of secular history. But does he actually control anything? What is his end game, and Pyotr’s?