THE FIRST EMPIRE HAS RETURNED.

THE NEW GALACTIC UNION HANGS IN THE BALANCE...

The Lightship Impulse is gone, sacrificed while defeating First Empire ships the fragile new galactic alliance hoped it would never see again.

For Peter Cochrane, serving as third officer on the Starbound and tasked with investigating a mysterious space station in a newly re-discovered system, the wounds of battle may have healed, but the battle is far from over.

Published
January 2016

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The Lightship Chronicles

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A millennia into the future, human kind is emerging from a prolonged dark age. Led by young heroes like Commander Peter Cochrane of the planet Quantar, a fragile new Union is being formed, taking the first steps to rediscovering their lost human heritage among the stars. These intrepid explorers navigate the galaxy in the Lightships, special vessels designed by the Historian Order of Earth to link together far-flung colonies and create a fabric for a new human civilisation to be rebuilt from the ashes of a collapsed empire.

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