Ergebnis für "Sky" in Militär

From the Audie-nominated narrator of The Martian. In eleven years' time, a million members of an alien race will arrive at Earth. Years before they enter orbit, their approach will be announced by the flare of a thousand flames in the sky, their ships' huge engines burning hard to slow them from the vast speeds needed to cross interstellar space. These foreboding lights will shine in our night sky like new stars, getting ever brighter until they outshine even the sun, casting ominous shadows and banishing the night until they suddenly blink out.

Earth is locked in a dangerous arms race with Rigel. McGill’s efforts at diplomacy are disastrous. Events spin out of control and interstellar warfare consumes the outer provinces of the Empire. Great fleets are gathered, and troops are hurried aboard transports. Legion Varus is launched toward a secret target world. McGill leads an early strike against Rigel’s defenses, but his efforts are foiled at every turn. Who could be behind these betrayals? Could his own government be plotting his demise?

From New York Times bestselling author Cixin Liu comes a short story collection of captivating visions of the future and incredible re-imaginings of the past. In To Hold Up the Sky, Cixin Liu takes us across time and space, from a rural mountain community where elementary students must use...

At last, the Earth and the Colonial Union have begun formal discussions about their relationship in the future - a chance for the divisions in humanity to be repaired. The diplomats and crew of the Clarke are on hand to help with the process, including Ambassador Ode Abumwe and CDF Lieutenant Harry Wilson, both of whom were born on Earth. But not everyone wants the human division to be repaired.... And they will go to great lengths to make sure it isn’t....

The SS Nomadic is one of the great unsolved mysteries. It’s been a century since the disappearance of one of the most opulent starliners in the Alpha Persei Cluster. Wannabe archaeologist Grace Dakota has finally located the wreck, and gambled everything on an adventure to claim the artifacts onboard and make her fortune. But only when she’s betrayed and left for dead does she find the reason the ship had gone off course, and it could lead her to the discovery of a lifetime. If she can find a way off the frozen wreck.

For the crew of the Keiko, their stay at the Grand House casino on New Samara was supposed to be a well-deserved rest. It didn't last. Captain Ichabod Drift promised that the side trip to the mining planet Uragan would be a quick in and out - a data retrieval job then back to the tables. He was wrong. When the revolution comes, all you can do is choose a side and hope to get out alive.

A secret mission. A divided crew. A revelation too dangerous to confront. When Amanda Martin—ruthless head of Project Fire Sky—boards the USS Virginia, she brings orders that override the military, the government, and even the ship’s captain. Her mission? Classified. Her methods? Brutal. Captain Reynolds is losing control of his ship. His crew is on edge. Tensions are rising.

ZostaMax has survived... but for how long? Have the ancestors really returned? Have they come for everyone… or only for him? As ZostaMax struggles to understand the truth, new militant forces arrive, bringing weapons, magic, secrets, and horrors no human has ever faced. Caught amidst warships, political manipulation, and a looming first-contact confrontation in orbit, ZostaMax must keep himself together as he works through revelations that threaten his sanity and enemies that threaten his world.

For over seven hundred years, the Spartan Republic’s citizens have known one truth: Terra is coming. Descendants of exiles who dared to defy an emperor, the star nation’s 70 billion citizens spent the centuries training, arming…and waiting. Even with the Terran Emperor dead, the so-called “Confederation of Man” still claims sovereignty over all humans…and Sparta would rather die on their feet than subjugate themselves once more.

With the Alliance Kingdoms and the Empire of Mongavaria now at war, half-elf Fieran Laesornysh has been sent to the naval base of Dar Goranth with one mission: protect the strategically important base from attack. But when he arrives, he discovers there are no aeroplanes for his men, they have been assigned to a squadron of elves, and the elven commander resents Fieran for his lineage. Defending Dar Goranth will be a little difficult if he can't even get off the ground.

It is 2065. Two special forces soldiers are on a deep infiltration mission in the central African jungle on mission of global importance, where they make an amazing discovery. Sean Thomas Keller meets a young boy and woman on a world he never knew existed, who change his future and his life forever. The boy has had his life turned upside down, and the woman was struggling with a difficult life.

Back at the joint Zvezda-US Copernicus Moonbase, the precarious Cold War cease-fire between the NASA and Soviet crews comes under threat from another consolidated assault. Vivian must navigate a treacherous political and military landscape, and travel from the lunar surface to high lunar orbit and back again, to solve the riddle of these strange lunar incursions and move ahead to a future that even she can barely imagine.

The war against Ryland is going well–but the dictator will destroy everything he can before the last defenses collapse. He’s got the former leaders of Ryland in a secret prison, and Jeff Yi has a new mission: sneak down to an embattled planet and save Ryland’s best and brightest before they can be murdered.

Clayton Sanders left home the minute he had his high school diploma in hand. He waited that long only because the army wouldn't accept him without one. Now, 10 years later, he's home, with no warning, no advance notice, no anything after being gone 10 years with almost no contact with his family. Home carrying a secret that is burning him up from the inside. A secret that has pushed him to the brink, forcing him to become a criminal in order to be where his family needs him to be, even though they don't realize it yet.

Continue the epic saga of family, love, and war. Across a century of chaos and upheaval, follow three generations of heroes who will change the face of China forever. A young boy on the run from the Communists that murdered his family must survive in the harsh Tibetan wilderness. A grandmother and leader of the underground railroad must face her dark past as a young revolutionary.

Five years after the historic Battle of Dulaston, Lee Summerston and the Renegades have settled nicely into life on Aura - and none more so than Danny Tucker. Fueled by a rising career as an ASC staff sergeant and a love unlike any he’s ever known, Danny is in the prime of his life and is at last free from the demons that have stalked him for years. Some demons never die, though, and when an old enemy comes to settle a personal score, Danny soon finds himself - and the woman of his dreams.

A vast battlecruiser moves silently through space—a ghost ship, abandoned decades ago. There could be treasure inside… or monsters. I’m the sucker who’s going to find out. Once I was a hero. An elite soldier fighting for the Paragon military. Now the Paragon’s wars are won and I’m nobody—a gun for hire, working illegal salvage operations. There’s money to be made out in the dark. Ships filled with valuable tech, left to drift between the stars. A smart salvage crew can get rich. Or at least die trying.

Two years after the Contact at Fiery Cross, US Navy Lieutenant-Commander John. I. Dominguez and the fighter pilots of the USS Theodore Roosevelt find themselves once again engaged with unidentified aerial vehicles of unknown origin on their way to a combat deployment in the Middle East. While the US Navy has since changed its policy on reporting such dangerous encounters, the shadowy Men in Black and their sinister motives have not.

Over a millennium in the past, humans fleeing Earth in slower-than-light vessels discovered the Waywork, an abandoned alien superhighway system that allows instantaneous travel from star to star. The problem: there are a finite number of Waypoint nodes - and the burgeoning population of humans is hemmed in as a result. Furthermore, humanity is divided into contending Starstates. One of the strongest is based on an oligarchy ruling families, but still mostly democratic. The other is a totalitarian nightmare. War seems inevitable.

A lone warrior falls from the sky, onto a post-apocalyptic world where chaos rules. Unable to return, he joins Gunwayne, the captain of a mysterious airship known as the Drake. In exchange for his services, he is offered the opportunity to return to his former home among the clouds. But, throughout his adventures with the crew, the psychic soldier begins to wonder if his fall from grace was actually a blessing in disguise.