Ricky’s forces have beaten back the Empire of Man’s attempted invasion of Earth, though he suspects that was a fact-finding mission in force. While doing so, his Navy has captured members of an alien spacefaring species currently known as the Kinaklyn. Ricky has the first known vocal conversation with the Kinaklyn people with very positive results. Now, he needs to figure out a way to get to their home worlds, which are located on the far side of a fair portion of the Empmen’s space. Space Marine Major Amy Brella is Ricky’s pointwoman in dealing with the Empmen. She leads the ...

Field Marshal Amy Brella brings the remainder of her invasion group home from Bardallow’s system in triumph, but with a significant bone to pick with her brother, Ricky Cruz, the Emperor of the Spindle Empire. He seems to have taken some liberties in naming the lead ship of the War Goddess class of Porcupine carriers. Ricky does make it up to her, by finally taking her to the farm she dreamed of so long ago, when he first showed her the valley above the small city she wanted him to build for the ex-shipboard slave women and girls he liberated from the Interstellars. Her Emperor allows her...

Founding the Colony is the second of two volumes revised and expanded from the original Colonization Chronical. This volume follows Ricky and his family after they reach Murna after overcoming seemingly impossible system and component failures to their ship, while escaping two separate piratical attacks. One of the first colonists to step foot on his new planets, he immediately begins establishing his farmstead with his girlfriend Edin. Using technology he has developed Ricky is able to communicate directly with his Grammy back on Earth. He is concerned the ansible network may be ...

Fresh off her victory over the pirates, Chloe orders her newly captured ship into port. Almost immediately upon entering Potterville Port, she begins to have suspicions about the harbormaster’s office. She and the local league office rep quickly find corruption within the office. After helping the office rep deal with that, she also develops suspicions about the harbormaster’s office being involved with the pirates. Before being able to begin being able to deal with that, Chloe and her party, along with the party her sister is in, are called back to the main league office and assigned ...

Chloe Locke is a dedicated gamer. In 2038 a new game is coming out called Guardian Meta. The game claims to have created full-body immersion VR pods that will allow players to live continuously in the game for weeks and even months at a time. The producers of the game offer Chloe and her entire party complimentary pods. An offer all five of them leap at. The only reason Chloe can’t stay in the game is her job. She doesn’t need her job, so she quits in a spectacular that just might save the forensic accounting firm she worked for. Now free of all obligations, she can stay full-time, but ...