Zachary Watson

Just when you think you've won a victory, you realize that the seas are even darker than you thought.Defeating the Faithful on Trinity, cleaning up the Fortress System, a territorial capital, was supposed to mean that we'd driven the enemy back. That'd we'd truly begun to cleanse our Empire of the traitors. Instead all we found was evidence pointing us to Gathahn.To the Imperial Capital.Racing hom...

Home.It is strange how that word is so short in every language that I know, yet means so much. After two years spent as a captive, or on the run through the wilds of the Far Reaches, I am finally going home. Finally able to embrace my friends, finally able to relay the information we have been carrying for so many months.If we could just have a few weeks, a few months, to plan, to prepare, maybe w...

I'd hoped that escaping from the Faithful would be the end of our troubles. That after a year of captivity, torture, and loss, we would finally be free.Instead it seems our struggles are doomed to continue. We may have escaped, but we're low on food, water, and fuel for our stolen ship. A ship carrying us into a storm of Warlords, Pirates, and Slavers. Into a region wracked by the greatest war it ...

We'd shut down a smuggling operation that spanned from the Empire to the far end of the Near Reaches. Helped destroy a conspiracy's training facility, capturing or killing hundreds of people who'd been working against our nation. All I wanted to do was go home. Rest before our next mission. To help put an end to that project so that we could move on to another.Instead I was drugged, abducted, and ...

Nothing focuses you like a last chance.I should know. I'm on mine. One more mistake and I'm out of the Imperial service. For a conscript barely halfway through her term of service, that doesn't mean just getting sent home. Doesn't mean exile. Doesn't mean a minor slap on the wrist.It means a penal colony for the rest of my life.It's not easy to forget that, even when I've finally been allowed to d...

My name is Ashe, and I'm one of millions of Imperial Conscripts. Like everyone else, I just want to get through my term with as few demerits and as much excitement as possible. That way I'd actually have a good chance to get into a proper Academy, and not have to go with my back-up plan of joining a minor Strike-Wave league as a goalie prospect.You'd think that would be easy, considering how many ...

There is nothing worse than chasing revenge... and being forced to give up the man you've sworn to kill. Even when you had to do it just to survive.His time would come. But in the aftermath of Zadith, even I could admit we weren't in any shape to go after him. More than a year of constant battle had worn me down to the point where I needed a break. Needed some time to recover, prepare, to figure o...

The first year of the war has brought us a long of things. Lost friends and battered bodies first and foremost, but also fortune, glory, and some measure of revenge.Zero, the partner of the man who killed my closest friends, is dead. Some part of me knows I shouldn't be happy about that. Shouldn't find some sick pleasure in repaying Krom with the same pain he delivered to me. Most days I don't, so...

Everything changed after Terminus... after their deaths.. after that bastard killed my friends just to get me involved in his sick game.I know I'm playing into his hands. Doing exactly what he wants. That I'm about to chase a master assassin through an interstellar warzone that filled with deadly beings who would love nothing more than to see my head on a spike.But to be honest? I can't bring myse...

One moment you're finally gaining the respect of the people around you. You're a trusted friend and subordinate, you're in a committed and loving relationship... The next you're faking your own death to escape from bounty hunting assassins and fleeing to the single most corrupt world in the known galaxy. All the while the two groups who want to protect you are more interested in screwing each othe...