About the Book
2566 A.D. Five
centuries ago, Earth sold a million children into slavery, the price of
protection from the regional superpower. One group of slaves was
bio-engineered and augmented to fight for alien officers as the Human
Marine Corps.
To most alien eyes the Corps is a joke: plasma
fodder equipped with third-rate cast-offs and so stupid that they go off to die actually believing they are genuine warriors.
But there
are others who look deeper and see potential. To them the human Marines
could be the wellspring of something far greater...
FREEDOM!
Unlike the other Marines on board the troop ship Beowulf, when eighteen-year
old Arun McEwan is woken from cryo to board an enemy ship, he already
knows he will survive: his destiny to lead the Human Legion has been
foretold.
But there are other factions who will stop at nothing to bring about their rival dreams for humanity’s future.
Isolated on a ship rocked by mutiny, betrayal, and murder, Arun must find new
allies amongst the most detested of the Navy crew: the freaks...
