David Weber - Empire From the Ashes (Dahak #1-3)

Dahak

1. Mutineer's Moon (1991)
2. The Armageddon Inheritance (1993)
3. Heirs of Empire (1996)



1 - Mutineer's Moon

MUTINY . . .

For Lt. Commander Colin Maclntyre, it began as a routine training flight over the Moon. For Dahak, a self-aware Imperial battleship, it began millennia ago when that powerful artificial intelligence underwent a mutiny in the face of the enemy. The mutiny was never resolved-Dahak was forced to maroon not just the mutineers but the entire crew on prehistoric Earth.

Dahak has been helplessly waiting as the descendants of the loyal crew regressed while the mutineers maintained control of technology that kept them alive as the millennia passed. But now Dahak's sensors indicate that the enemy that devastated the Imperium so long ago has returned-and Earth is in their path. For the sake of the planet, Dahak must mobilize its defenses. And that it cannot do until the mutineers are put down. So Dahak has picked Colin Maclntyre to be its new captain. Now Maclntyre must mobilize humanity to destroy the mutineers once and for all-or Earth will become a cinder in the path of galactic conquest.



2 - Armageddon Inheritance

Job Pressure . . .

Colin MacIntyre's Life as a NASA astronaut might not have been exciting, but at least it was orderly. Unfortunately, He's been tapped for greater things, and he isn't too sure he likes it.

First he was kidnapped by an ancient, self-aware starship masquerading as Earth's Moon. Then he was drafted as its captain to suppress a five-thousand-year old mutiny. And then he had to mobilize the planet against the attack of an eons-old alien menace dedicated to the eradication of all intelligent life in the galaxy.

It's hard to blame him for feeling a little stressed but there's something Colin MacIntyre doesn't know about all the things he's had to do.

They were the easy part.


3 - Heirs of Empire

The Boss's Kids . . .

For really tough jobs, Emperor Colin the First is your man. The Only person in the galaxy ever to stop the genocidal Achuutani, he went on from there to resurrect an empire that died forty-five thousand years ago. He's still got a few problems—like a traitor out to murder him and three-quarters of a billion of his subjects—but if anyone can handle the job, it's Colin.

But the rest of the galaxy better brace itself, because his progeny are on the way. Not that Sean and Harriet aren't nice kids; it's just that they've had a bad day. They're a long way from home, marooned with a blown up starship that's left them stranded on a theocratic world of gunpowder and pikes, and Mother Church of that world doesn't like them very much. In fact, she's declared them demons, proclaimed Holy War, marshalled the Holy Host, and ordered them exterminated.

You might think that things look pretty bleak for the kids, but in reality it's Mother Church that's in trouble—because Sean and Harry are chips off the old block—and they're about to get angry....




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