Ergebnis für "Rose" in Militär

Du bestimmst, wie hoch dein Wert ist, doch SIE entscheiden, wie viel du wert bist. Jeder Mensch hat einen gesellschaftlichen Wert, der täglich steigen oder fallen kann. Und jeder hat nur 72 Stunden Zeit, um im Notfall das Schlimmste zu verhindern. Amalia Thomson lebt in einer Welt ohne Grenzen, dafür jedoch der ständigen Überwachung. Mit drei Jobs auf drei Kontinenten verstreut, versucht sie, ihren sozialen Wert hoch genug zu halten, um sich und ihre kranke Mutter über die Runden zu bringen.

This series of eight stories relates the tale of Sister Superior Augusta Santorus of the Order of the Bloody Rose as she battles against the horrors of the galaxy. She’ll encounter heretics, xenos, and everything in between. This collection includes five short stories and three novellas, one of which is available for the first time in this audiobook.

Opal is a gleaming shrine world of saints and soldiers, beloved of the Emperor Himself. Sent to retrieve the skull of the revered Saint Veres, Sister Superior Augusta of the Order of the Bloody Rose and her squad find themselves in the midst of the capital’s holiest festival, a time of reverence and celebration. But all is not well – despite what its planetary leaders would have Augusta believe, political danger bubbles under the surface, and rebel attacks gnaw away at the city’s outskirts. The greatest threat, however, is yet to come.

Was als gewöhnliches Spiel für einen Veteranen im Ruhestand begonnen hatte, der nach einem langen und ereignisreichen Leben seine wenigen verbleibenden ...

One could understand why Liam was angry. He was orphaned at the age of two by a group of giant carnivorous insects called the chitin. Taken in by High Councilor Marcus and his wife, Lidia, Liam was raised with their older son, Randolf, in New Olympia, the last remaining city on the planet Etrusci.

Wenn einem langsam die Jahre ausgehen, stellt man oft fest, dass einen das Leben völlig alleingelassen hat. So ergeht es auch einem Kriegsveteranen, der viele "Brennpunkte" der Geschichte miterlebt hat. Um auf seine alten Tage noch etwas zu erleben, unterschreibt der ehemalige Soldat einen Vertrag mit einem Unternehmen, das eine vollständig immersive virtuelle Welt entwickelt hat. Projekt Alpha Rom ist eine Stadt mit mehreren Ebenen, die von endlosen Kriegen zwischen Menschen und Mutanten geplagt wird. Du kannst dir aussuchen, als welche der beiden Spezies du spielen willst.

An original novel based on the acclaimed Star Trek TV series! The USS Enterprise has been granted the simple but unavoidable honor of ferrying key guests to Betazed for a cultural ceremony. En route, sudden tragedy strikes a Federation science station on the isolated planet Kota, and Captain...

Der alte Militärveteran Volper hatte keine Ahnung, was ihn erwarten würde, als er die virtuelle Welt von Alpha Rom betrat. Aber jetzt muss er feststellen, dass es sich gar nicht um ein Spiel handelt. Denn die Menge der möglichen Respawns, die man durch Replikation in speziellen Kapseln durchführen kann, ist begrenzt und könnte eines Tages zur Neige gehen. Volper musste sich auch mit einer Gruppe von Teenagern arrangieren und hat es geschafft, sie zu einer tödlichen Kampftruppe auszubilden.

An old military veteran wanted to add a little color to his lonely existence. So, he entered Alpha Rome. This virtual world has given him the chance to feel young again and have one last taste of the spice of life. The prospect of death is no longer daunting, as anyone who dies is reborn by replicating in a purpose-built capsule. Volper’s military experience, keen eye and sharp negotiating skills have helped him get off to a successful start, but his view of the project has taken a sharp turn. More and more questions are popping up and there are no answers in sight.

What began as a normal game for a retired veteran who, after a long and eventful life, decided to spend his few remaining days inside of a virtual world, has abruptly started acquiring features of reality. A terrible, dysfunctional, and sometimes murderous reality. For a while, Volper only manages to survive thanks solely to his combat experience. And then he meets others he simply cannot pass by, because of one of his two weaknesses.

The first release of Ellanora was rushed to publication, leaving many readers wanting a fuller experience. Now the Expanded Edition is here! Hear the mind-blowing exploits of the faithful people of Panoptia as they resist being one of 37 planets to succumb to the Lucifer Rebellion more than half a million years ago. Exciting and uplifting, you will love this audiobook!

Comatose and kidnapped by the relentless Sasha, Jake’s friends and family are in a desperate race against time to find him. As word of Jake’s vulnerability spreads, Mechcrafter mercenaries hunt for Jake, lured by the promise of a huge payday.

The old psychiatric tower has been blown to bits, and FBI agents quickly determine that the suspect with the most plausible answers is a brilliant liar: Robbie DeFonte, a young YouTube star whose family chronicles are steeped in the darker history of the sprawling mental facility. A massive wind farm erected around the ruined psychiatric center buildings becomes central to a lurid tale that transports back a century earlier to unearth a legacy of hidden weapons and lost lives.

History isn’t always written to glorify the victors. Sometimes, it’s written to conceal the truth. In this novel’s depiction of alternate history military fiction, Sparta still exists today as a technologically advanced, secret civilization dedicated to protecting humankind. When smallpox is genetically engineered into a bioweapon, Alessa—a warrior in the Spartan military—is sent to collect evidence regarding its origin. After being violently attacked, she awakens with no memory to a world infected with the very virus she had been sent to prevent.

Ash Wednesday and his crew of corporate space marines take work as bounty hunters tasked with taking down the deadly fugitive named Simon Haddo, a mad scientist with an occult obsession and the most infamous terrorist in the system. As they track him through the depths of a gruesome space station, the mercs of Team Omega soon find themselves drawn into a galactic conspiracy bent on creating a literal hell on earth in this violent sci-fi remix of Dante's Divine Comedy.

Rhett Calibos is a bounty scrapper, his life as an indentured soldier a welcome alternative to imprisonment on a penal colony. A man haunted by his past, Rhett throws himself into the work, his only sanctuary. Sokol Targe is the leader of a mech warrior squad stationed aboard an ancient and deadly warship and conducts violent raids on behalf of a Red List commune. As these troubled men endure furious combat across the ragged edges of civilization, neither of them realize they've become entangled in the deeper mysteries of necrospace.

Hayden Cole is a slinger for the mega-corporation Union Americana, one of the hacker elite who wage info wars in the immersive virtual realm of MassNet. He has been assigned to a task force bound for the Philippines, where he is joined by an assortment of engineers, security operatives, and Laine 2.0, the Union's most deadly cyborg assassin. A new energy source which could yield a world changing new source of clean energy. Each of the primary corporate powers have sent task forces to the island, and economic competition turns violent as the opposing operatives race to find the source.

The mercs of Team Omega have lost their gunship along with their android companion, and now find themselves the newest crew of the prototype vessel Paradiso. Out of options and betrayed at every turn, the team sides with the enigmatic Simon Haddo in his mission to destroy Hell Gates positioned throughout the solar system that, if left unchecked, will usher in a new dark age of misery and suffering at the hands of demonic beings from another reality in this surreal and violent sci-fi remix of Dante's Paradiso.

The planet Mars has become an epic battleground where mighty armies clash in a seemingly endless struggle. Pride, politics, and greed have ignited the spark of war, drawing a vast web of alliances into a bitter conflict. Artillery fire and dropships fill the skies while combat marines endure the savage grind of futuristic trench warfare. The propaganda media machine has painted the conflict as one in which fortune and glory await the daring. Young men everywhere flock to the various banners, unprepared for the grim reality of war on the distant planet.

In the aftermath of World War III, a reptilian army emerges from the darkness of space to launch a ruthless campaign of conquest and genocide. All that remains of the world is a wasteland of concrete ruins and shattered architecture, now the dystopian battlefield upon which the human resistance wages its defiant war of survival against the invaders. Includes five books of the Alien Resistance series.