Iron Suns Saga Series
By Solaria's Fist and K.D. Karnik
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About this series
Arise...
Awake...
Betray...
When the war comes, rejoice.
Smuggled radios scream such mottos at the Thousand Suns, as the navies of Solaria find themselves on the edge, scattered and fighting a lost battle. The battle to preserve what the war against the Tauran Empire ripped clean off humanity, and Solaria's decadent order.
Technologies banned for centuries are popping up on burnt worlds, military laws in several sectors turn into an afterthought. Eons of "peaceful oppression" end at the hands of an invigorated underground, tension amongst upstart superpowers teeter on the brink of war, and the Sun calls upon its workers to fight the Spacer Melds, forsaking a billion lives and counting.
Admiral Aggarwal, named most popular warrior of the colonial admiralty on Earth, appears to wallow in postwar depression. It makes for a good mask, as he works, collects, observes, as a traitor in the midst of Solaria. But when a war leader's assassination plunges the fleets into frenzied mobilization, and he is sent into an escalating military situation at the Blackwaters with enough firepower to pulverize a planet, he can think of enough Divinity-approved ways to use it for his own planned crusade.
When an enemy messenger pops up to claim the existence of a new threat that "might" be unstoppable if humanity does not unite and prepare for a war of annihilation, doubts spring up. With doubts come more heat between allies, while the possibilities are far too dire to ignore. To Shiv, it is a matter to rejoice. He volunteers to head into the unknown, confident the enemy is a godsend method to weaken Solaria before he strikes his own blow. As his universe falls apart, he prepares. Before he can save humanity, he must cleanse it.
One way or another, reckoning is near …
Titles in the series (2)
- The Void Calls: Iron Suns Saga, #1
1
A sentient station older than the sun ... A torus where time stutters ... A realm haunted by the fading wails of the ripping fabric of space ... A band of hardy fools choose to invade it. From the rubble of humankind's worst wars have emerged a myriad claimants to the decadent civilization that the Powers of Solaria had administered for centuries. Collapsing systems erupt in renewed melees as agents of the underground run amok and infiltrators plague the ranks of Martian-Jovian militaries. Rumors about the destruction of systems at the hands of a mysterious invader abound. The defense against the Spacers has consumed a billion lives and counting, but Solaria finds its solace in propaganda—for the enemy has only retreated into the blackness they emerged from, and as humanity loses purpose, proxy wars tie up the Navy. The most powerful fleet that Jupiter-Pluto can wield has decimated the Gubre System in one such proxy war, uncovering a full array of underground operations. Dozens of enigmatic Melds are found and hunted—possibly, the ruins strewn on these planets might provide some advantage in the greater conflict. The fleet settles down for occupation, and the admiral dispatches a team of what he thinks are randomly selected Marines under Lieutenant Hojaka. Their mission: investigate a derelict transfer station drifting in the interplanetary gulf. As they get closer, however, their worlds and their minds stop seeming quite right. Is it a station? Or a frontwheeler photonic torus? A moon-sized Foot? Is it inhabited by corpses or is it the abode of the Meld? Gateways lead into a turquoise-skinned universe where the ancient exiled Representative AI has taken refuge, where others once resided. Greater others, now mauled and mangled by a mixture of their own stupidity and the influence of someone beyond, as the golden mountains on Planet Khundav detonate and the Navies of Solaria patrol. The stakes are at levels from which causality is but superstition, ethics but an afterthought. For Hojaka, it is a desperate venture, trickery on a galactic scale. To the Meld Deluria, it is a stepping stone. A scheme has been unfolding for aeons, by the will of powers far beyond human comprehension—powers that he aims to conquer. In his quest, the Meld has come face-to-face with an entity. An entity that has lain in wait since the first black holes uttered their birth-cries, that has witnessed suns rise and fall at the hands of desperate living things who cling to the mossy cliff of survival. It is vast and dark, its tendrils reach far and wide. Now the Meld has used the splendid drama-of-humanity he has orchestrated to poke this entity with a sharp stick. He has forced it to watch. To feel. Now, it has made a move.
- Solaria's Fist: Iron Suns Saga
Arise... Awake... Betray... When the war comes, rejoice. Smuggled radios scream such mottos at the Thousand Suns, as the navies of Solaria find themselves on the edge, scattered and fighting a lost battle. The battle to preserve what the war against the Tauran Empire ripped clean off humanity, and Solaria's decadent order. Technologies banned for centuries are popping up on burnt worlds, military laws in several sectors turn into an afterthought. Eons of "peaceful oppression" end at the hands of an invigorated underground, tension amongst upstart superpowers teeter on the brink of war, and the Sun calls upon its workers to fight the Spacer Melds, forsaking a billion lives and counting. Admiral Aggarwal, named most popular warrior of the colonial admiralty on Earth, appears to wallow in postwar depression. It makes for a good mask, as he works, collects, observes, as a traitor in the midst of Solaria. But when a war leader's assassination plunges the fleets into frenzied mobilization, and he is sent into an escalating military situation at the Blackwaters with enough firepower to pulverize a planet, he can think of enough Divinity-approved ways to use it for his own planned crusade. When an enemy messenger pops up to claim the existence of a new threat that "might" be unstoppable if humanity does not unite and prepare for a war of annihilation, doubts spring up. With doubts come more heat between allies, while the possibilities are far too dire to ignore. To Shiv, it is a matter to rejoice. He volunteers to head into the unknown, confident the enemy is a godsend method to weaken Solaria before he strikes his own blow. As his universe falls apart, he prepares. Before he can save humanity, he must cleanse it. One way or another, reckoning is near …
Solaria's Fist
K. D. Karnik is the pen name of Krishna, a science fiction author and graduate of the Alpha Writers Workshop. He is fascinated by the nature of words and philosophy, the human brain and human nature. He likes plodding through snow and imagining stray cats popping round the corner to purr at him, snow minus the biting winter wind, of course. He likes to lift his face and stare at the galactic disc, hoping he can do more than imagining about it. He wonders what it would be like to live on a Dyson Sphere around one of the flickering reddish suns. *Probably, it wouldn't be that different as experience, since if someone lives in a small patch of land on a world with trillion times Earth's area, they'd need at least a hundred reincarnations to even read all the maps, let alone tour it beyond our village.*
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