Ergebnis für "OWEN" in Naturwissenschaften

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Leonidas Piper watched from the surface of Jergan as the warship he was serving on with his best friend was blasted into rubble by John Blakely's Pirate Fleet. That warship was all they had left after the Unity Government disbanded their mercenary legion. Now nothing remained of it but gas and debris in orbit above Jergan. Two years later fate stepped in again; Leonidas was on a commercial Starliner traveling to Kellinger when it was stopped and boarded by a crew of pirates led by John Blakely.

A young human male orphaned by the death of his adopted father struggles to survive in a universe that offers little more than despair. He's forced to scrub booster tubes on commercial starships to make enough coins to feed his alcohol addiction in his dirty day-to-day existence. The future looks dark and is getting darker. To make matters worse, he discovers that two very powerful forces are attempting to capture him and he has no clue why.

Aerospace tycoon Gordon Elliot Lee cannot stand idly by while a mysterious alien presence from Delta Pavonis bears down upon mankind's only home. Shut out from NASA and military support, Gordon is forced to go it alone, to sow the seeds for an entirely new sort of planetary defense: a space-based naval force.

A strange alien calling himself the Prophet has appeared in orbit above Earth, and the planet's most powerful weapons have proven useless against his ship's defenses. To make matters worse, the Prophet tells mankind that Earth will soon be invaded and destroyed if the Earth's nations don't learn how to live in peace and start building to meet the coming enemy. Failure to change humanity's warlike ways will lead to its destruction.

The Captors have departed to their new home but have left a warning about a looming attack from a species that is known as universe killers. The Eight Legs are more than 200 million years old, and they invade universes to kill and harvest all intelligent life. They had come eight million years ago and harvested the Stars Realm's universe, but the Captors warn that the creation of their new home would lead to their moving up their timetable for invasion.

The cryosleep chambers are beginning to fail. Surveillance of Hocklyn space has revealed that the Hocklyns are thirty years ahead of their projected schedule and will soon reach human occupied space. War could break out any day if something isn't done. The human leaders suggest a daring plan to buy them the additional time they need to strengthen the Fleet, as well as the defenses protecting their worlds.

The Stars Realm is finally at peace and the Algeans are now allies of the Realm. The Gardner's youngest child, Tommy, has made a quest to free the captured Alfont from the Captors that have held them imprisoned for more than sixty million years. The Captors are hundreds of millions of years more advanced technologically than the Stars Realm Military and nothing in the Realm's arsenal can match their ships, some of which are more than 3,000 miles in diameter.

The starship New Horizon is Earth's first attempt at an FTL capable spaceship. But others don't want the mission to succeed. The mission goes suddenly and horribly wrong with the possibility of inadvertently leading the Hocklyns to Earth decades in advance of their estimated arrival time. Can the cadets on the New Horizon stop the deadly plot before it's too late?

The universal doorway into the Stars Realm has been destroyed, delaying future invasions by the Eight Legs. They are still very much a danger, and it is just a matter of time until their scientists find a way to return to the Realm. The Stars Realm and its new friends must find a means of stopping this enemy from future attacks and their continued destruction of intelligent life in other universes.