Impulse
Dave Bara
DAW, Feb 3 2015, $24.95
ISBN: 9780756409968
Centuries ago the Corporate Empire of Man
expanded to almost a thousand planets, but corruption and incompetence led to a
devastating eight-decade civil war. The
Corporate Empire collapsed with most of the former member systems turning
inward. Not too long ago, Earth
Historians began reaching out to other systems offering technological support
that led to the forming of the loose Union.
In the present, word arrives on one of the
original rebellious planets Quantar that their lightship HMS Impulse, allegedly
on a first contact mission in the Levant system, was attacked by a
hyperdimensional wave leaving several dead.
Quantar Royal Navy Grand Admiral Nathan Cochrane informs his son Lieutenant
Peter Cochrane that the latter’s girlfriend died in the attack and that the
real mission was to investigate whether hyperdimensional anomalies in that
sector threatened the Union. Finally he
promotes and reassigns Peter from leading teams on the HMS Starbound to take
charge as the senior naval officer on board the Impulse to continue its secret
mission and prevent the vessel from retaliating against any remnants of the
First Empire. Nothing goes right as he,
his supervisor Commander Dobrina Kierkopf and others are under assault from
former empire’s technology while an Earth Historian takes control of the
Impulse.
Anchored by complex outer space
multi-systems, a primogeniture hierarchy and an
intriguing civilization history focused on the effects of war and the
renaissance, the first Lightship Chronicles is a hyperspeed very
entertaining military science fiction.
Filled with action and in spite of the reader anticipating almost every
critical time how the hero will react to the dangerous scenarios he confronts,
fans will want to join Peter on his mission.
Harriet Klausner
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