Ten years before Commander Grant and his SR-X experimental fighter left the ground, the U.S.C. Defiance became the flash point for humanity’s First Contact War. While unprepared for the devastating assault from an alien race that was by all previous accounts peaceful, the crew will need to band together if any are to have any hope of survival. Forging within them a steadfast determination, they must go beyond their capabilities and stand united not as mere technicians, but as soldiers of humanity.

With the only hope of a rescue light-years away, will they hold on long enough to warn the fleet of the war that is to come?

For the first time, humanity is united in the exploration of the galaxy.

For the first time, humanity is fighting for its very survival.

In the near future, humanity has overcome the bonds of earth and begun to explore the galaxy. The alien first contact was everything the world’s greatest scholars could have hoped for; the Aquillians were advanced, intelligent and peaceful until ships and colonies turned up missing. Having previously no military capacity, the alien’s ability to reverse engineer humankind’s technologies of war proved to be a great equalizer.
The aliens grew increasingly brazen, culminating in a series of devastating attacks on the populations of earth. It quickly became clear that the military leaders had greatly underestimated their numbers, proficiency, and reach throughout the galaxy.

Commander Prime Jefferson Grant has nothing left to lose. Left alone without a home or family, he enlists in the United Space Corps to give the only thing he has left: His life.
To avenge the lost he must carve a path of destruction beyond compare to secure humanity’s future. From the Earth to the stars, across countless alien battlefields, the war must be fought. To succeed, Grant must take a descent into madness, give up all that he knew, and realize his destiny as a hero or a monster.
The enemy is coming. Is the will of one soldier enough to save it?

The Aquillians have been defeated, but their threat has not been eliminated.

Commander Prime Jefferson Grant’s life has been spared, but only in exchange for a life of servitude.

No sooner had the dust settled and the dead buried before the survivors of the Aquillian race would emerge. Allied with a strange, new enemy and prepared for combat, these are not the creatures that allowed their civilization to be destroyed so easily by the humans in the First Contact War.

They’re attacking Earth and her colonies without method or mercy, leaving the leaders of the United Space Corps scrambling to react. The last best hope lies with the soldiers, tradesmen and service members on the frontlines, thrown into the fire to survive or otherwise.

Driven by forces he does not understand, Commander Prime Grant must lay his past aside, lead his crew through the battle across the martian soil and forge a team unbreakable in body if not in spirit.

Commander Grant and his crew have escaped from Earth into deep space, dragging behind them a fleet of invading alien ships in a desperate attempt to give humanity’s beleaguered defenses a chance to regroup. With their enemy closing in, they plunge headlong into the abyss and find themselves on the far side of the universe, face to face with an oddly familiar alien ally who is intently interested in their survival.

The Lyran race has spent millennia conquering the stars but have finally met a foe which they cannot face. They have not been idle, however, and have made ready for the time when a warrior would emerge from the darkness and lead their civilization to victory.

But nothing in war is as simple as it seems.

Vengeance has Consequences.

Commander Grant stands at the helm of the most powerful interstellar armada ever assembled; a force measuring in the thousands stands ready to defend earth and her new allies. Unfortunately, their greatest weapon system, an immense capital starship, has been compromised, leaving them on the drift. Unable to execute their mission across the stars without their most powerful asset, the team must scour the galaxy for its trail if they are to have any hope of defeating the brutal alien menace.

But no operation survives first contact intact. Questions continue to build as to the true nature of their ally, the mystery surrounding their adversary, and the increasingly intertwined history of all their civilizations.

Growing ever more distraught, Commander Grant awaits the day when his force stops running and brings the fire to their enemy, but will his zeal deliver them victory or oblivion?