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Series: Book 1 in the Manticore Ascendant series
Rating: ****
Tags: EN-SF-Military, Lang:en
Summary
Growing up, Travis Uriah Long
yearned for order and discipline in his life . . . the
two things his neglectful mother couldn't or wouldn't
provide. So when Travis enlisted in the Royal Manticoran
Navy, he thought he'd finally found the structure he'd
always wanted so desperately.
But life in the RMN isn't
exactly what he expected. Boot camp is rough and
frustrating; his first ship assignment lax and
disorderly; and with the Star Kingdom of Manticore still
recovering from a devastating plague, the Navy is
possibly on the edge of extinction.
The Star Kingdom is a minor
nation among the worlds of the Diaspora, its closest
neighbors weeks or months away, with little in the way of
resources. With only modest interstellar trade, no
foreign contacts to speak of, a plague-ravaged economy to
rebuild, and no enemies looming at the hyper limit, there
are factions in Parliament who want nothing more than to
scrap the Navy and shift its resources and manpower
elsewhere.
But those factions are mistaken.
The universe is not a safe place.
Travis Long is about to find
that out.