The Lightning War · Book 5
Three synchronized attacks. Two thousand dead. The Accord is fracturing. A military science fiction saga about a forgotten Polish colony, a stolen alien FTL drive, and the officer who has to hold the line.
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Before Maria Roszak commanded anything, she was an ensign on an obsolete destroyer, pulling refugees out from under a Caliphate fleet with nothing but a well-drilled crew and a ship everyone else had written off. First Thunder is the prequel novella to The Lightning War — free, and it's yours in about thirty seconds.
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The main saga
Maria Roszak goes from junior officer on an obsolete destroyer to the commander of a cluster that no longer answers to Earth. Read these in order.
A forgotten colony. A derelict alien ship. The FTL secret that starts a war.
The drive is stolen. The conspiracy reaches the Admiralty.
New Volga burns. Maria fights beside the enemy she was built to fear.
Earth seals the wormhole. The cluster is on its own.
A disgraced spy, a temperamental courier, and a cylinder nobody was meant to find.
Three synchronized attacks. Two thousand dead. The Accord is fracturing.
Same universe, other corners
Standalone stories set in the Hyades Cluster. You can read any of them at any point — none of them spoil the main saga.
Before Maria, her mother paid the price of the bubble drive.
An invisible war for quantum AI, fought inside Polonia Prime.
A doomsday device that tears reality apart, and one captain caught between two fleets.
An obsolete destroyer, a defector, and the opening move of a conspiracy.
Who's writing this
Miles Phoenix writes military science fiction with the politics left in. The Lightning War is a fleet saga where the hardest problem on the bridge is usually a person, not a missile.