The Outer Reaches: Books 1-3
(2025)(A book in the Outer Reaches series)
An omnibus of novels by Peter J Aldin and A J Gordon
ICONIC
For 3400 years, we conquered the Milky Way, ushering in an age of peace and
prosperity. All of humanity, united beneath the banner of the Martianist Imperium.
Until civil war struck at the empire's heart...
1700 years after the war, the Imperium is a shadow of its former self. Along the galaxy's
Outer Reaches, frontier factions and vicious gangs nip at the empire's heels and jostle for
dominance.
In the year 5122, Alexis Nales wakes from stasis to find her crew long dead and herself the
property of slavers. To survive in the lawless outer region, Alexis must transform a ragtag
group of escaped slaves into a tight-knit crew who'll fight for freedom and a better future.
Elsewhere, an ancient warrior—captured at the civil war's conclusion—awakens from his
own stasis. Expected to lead a team of fellow captives, Jabari Mbaye soon discovers the
assignment is off-the-books… and the imperial officer commanding it has gone rogue.
When both of their paths converge, Alexis and Jabari must face two questions. Can the other
be trusted? And do they have what it takes to win?
Losing this battle could result in the deaths of both their teams… and ultimately in the
destruction of all human civilisation.
QUAESTOR
In the year 5122, law and order across the Imperium's vast reaches is a difficult thing to maintain. Enter the Quaestors. They are judges, law bringers, and when need be, executioners.
When imperial Quaestor Aurelia Cossea enlists Proselyti troopers to depose a corrupt governor, Sergeant Saito Shimada willingly accepts. A convert to imperial ways, he has devoted himself to a safer, more united galaxy.
But when the assignment is interrupted by betrayal and the bizarre appearance of two troopers from an earlier Prosyleti mission, Saito's commitment to his Imperium masters is sorely tested.
Under-equipped and cut off from support, the hunters will become the hunted, forced to navigate the twisted maze of an ancient city in a desperate escape bid, hampered by bad intel, the governor's minions, and the two deserters who've returned from the dead.
FAR HORIZONS
The Malleus crew—their leader Alexis, former gladiator Sabrya, and engineer extraordinaire
Bradyn, and the upgraded droid Torg—aren't fitting into Sylvanus Colony.
Facing prowling Imperials, a looming bounty by the powerful Bukshoga Qlan, and various other nefarious
entities out for their blood, this side of the galaxy has become too hot for them.
With a cargo ship without cargo, the crew plots a course to the farthest known reaches of the
galaxy to become traders among the emerging colony worlds of the Orion Quadrant—a
region under constant harassment from marauders. They soon realise they can offer the one
thing the colonists need—protection.
Genre: Science Fiction
For 3400 years, we conquered the Milky Way, ushering in an age of peace and
prosperity. All of humanity, united beneath the banner of the Martianist Imperium.
Until civil war struck at the empire's heart...
1700 years after the war, the Imperium is a shadow of its former self. Along the galaxy's
Outer Reaches, frontier factions and vicious gangs nip at the empire's heels and jostle for
dominance.
In the year 5122, Alexis Nales wakes from stasis to find her crew long dead and herself the
property of slavers. To survive in the lawless outer region, Alexis must transform a ragtag
group of escaped slaves into a tight-knit crew who'll fight for freedom and a better future.
Elsewhere, an ancient warrior—captured at the civil war's conclusion—awakens from his
own stasis. Expected to lead a team of fellow captives, Jabari Mbaye soon discovers the
assignment is off-the-books… and the imperial officer commanding it has gone rogue.
When both of their paths converge, Alexis and Jabari must face two questions. Can the other
be trusted? And do they have what it takes to win?
Losing this battle could result in the deaths of both their teams… and ultimately in the
destruction of all human civilisation.
QUAESTOR
In the year 5122, law and order across the Imperium's vast reaches is a difficult thing to maintain. Enter the Quaestors. They are judges, law bringers, and when need be, executioners.
When imperial Quaestor Aurelia Cossea enlists Proselyti troopers to depose a corrupt governor, Sergeant Saito Shimada willingly accepts. A convert to imperial ways, he has devoted himself to a safer, more united galaxy.
But when the assignment is interrupted by betrayal and the bizarre appearance of two troopers from an earlier Prosyleti mission, Saito's commitment to his Imperium masters is sorely tested.
Under-equipped and cut off from support, the hunters will become the hunted, forced to navigate the twisted maze of an ancient city in a desperate escape bid, hampered by bad intel, the governor's minions, and the two deserters who've returned from the dead.
FAR HORIZONS
The Malleus crew—their leader Alexis, former gladiator Sabrya, and engineer extraordinaire
Bradyn, and the upgraded droid Torg—aren't fitting into Sylvanus Colony.
Facing prowling Imperials, a looming bounty by the powerful Bukshoga Qlan, and various other nefarious
entities out for their blood, this side of the galaxy has become too hot for them.
With a cargo ship without cargo, the crew plots a course to the farthest known reaches of the
galaxy to become traders among the emerging colony worlds of the Orion Quadrant—a
region under constant harassment from marauders. They soon realise they can offer the one
thing the colonists need—protection.
Genre: Science Fiction
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