Ergebnis für "Rosen" in Militär

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.

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.

Discover the original novel set in the Halo universe, based on the New York Times bestselling video game series! Saskia, Dorian, Evie, and Victor aren’t exactly friends at their small high school on the middle-of-nowhere colony world of Meridian. Each has their own problems, from absent...

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.

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

Was würden Sie machen, wenn Ihnen die Ärzte im hohen Alter sagen, dass Sie nur noch ein paar Jahre zu leben haben und selbst die modernste Medizintechnik nichts mehr ausrichten kann? Manche verbringen ihre verbleibenden Jahre damit, dass sie immer wieder tief ins Glas schauen, andere entscheiden sich dafür, sie in aller Ruhe im Kreise ihrer Familie zu verbringen… Aber es gibt auch Menschen, die bereit sind, alles hinter sich zu lassen. Volper ist einer von ihnen. Er hat beschlossen, dass er es noch einmal wissen will - und ist in eine virtuelle Realität eingetaucht.

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...

Discover the original novel set in the Halo universe, based on the New York Times bestselling video game series! It’s been three months since the colony world of Meridian was invaded by the alien theocratic alliance known as the Covenant. Under the close watch of the military, teenagers Evie...

Elderly military veteran Volper had no idea what to expect when he entered the virtual world of Alpha Rome. But he now realizes that it’s not a game, after all. The number of times you can respawn by replicating in special capsules is limited and might one day run out. Volper has also had to take on a group of teenagers and has managed to turn them into a lethal combat squad. However, their success has not gone unnoticed, and the team has caught the attention of some powerful corporations.

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.

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 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!

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.

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.

Under a shroud of darkness and maliciousness, a viral weapon was being produced by an alliance of terrorists bent on the destruction of their respective enemies. When double-crossed by an ISIS faction, the viral weapon is stolen and prematurely unleashed on the planet. Now facing a worldwide epidemic, The Light Reapers are deployed to rescue a scientist who may be able to develop an antidote. If that wasn't difficult enough, they also must track down the ISIS faction and eliminate them. All while battling hordes of the infected.

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.

The most wanted salvage marine in the universe thought he was done fighting. For Samuel Hyst the nightmare was over, left behind upon dead worlds and within the derelict ships drifting through space, he and his family having fled to the edges of the frontier to begin a new life of peace. In the aftermath of a violent raid by slave traders, the long-suffering marine discovers that a relic of the ancient machine civilization has been left at the doorstep of his pristine forest homestead. He feels the menace radiating from it, and knows that the various powers and factions that rule necrospace will soon come for all of them.

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.