Exodus: Empires at War: Book 11: Day of Infamy (Exodus: Empires at War.) (38 page)

The strike into Fenri
space is a success, taking the heart out of their fleet and capturing several
of their industrial planets, sending the small mammalians into a frenzy. 
The Fenri still have some power in their fleet, and organize an offensive that
kicks the NTE naval force out of their space, stranding Baggett and his
soldiers on the surface of one of the planets.

The Ca’cadasan strike
force makes it to Elysium space, commandeers a Brakakak light cruiser, and
takes the station in orbit around that Empire’s capital world.  The Cacas
jump through the wormhole to the
Donut
, bringing thousands of troops and four
Quarkium devices, intending to destroy the station.  The Knockermen
destroy the Brakakak station with the device that they were given by the huge
aliens.  And Walborski, heading through the
Donut
on a short leave
to see his wife and children, finds himself involved in another battle.

Sean lures the Ca’cadasan
main fleet into battle, springing his ambush, and ravaging the enemy
fleet.  They turn into a tougher opponent that he planned on, and some of
the enemy fleet escapes to head back to their base, leaving the Imperial fleet
with a lesser victory than wanted, and higher casualties than expected.

Cornelius organizes a
team to keep the Cacas from exploding one of their devices on the
Donut,
and only one of
the bombs is detonated.  The station, though damaged, survives. 
Meanwhile, Baggett’s force in Fenri space resist the ground assault with heavy
casualties, until relieved by the Fleet, and the Fenri are all but knocked out
of the war.  Natasha Sung is meanwhile closing in on her goal, the aliens
who are also fighting the enemy at the other side of their empire.

The alliance fleet
reorganizes and prepares to attack the Cacas, while they are still reeling from
their defeat.  Using the cover of a supernova explosion, which covers the
resonances of ships transiting hyperspace, Sean launched a multi-winged assault
on the remaining Ca’cadasan forces in the Empire.  The fleets strike
without warning, bringing the Cacas to battle and all but annihilating their
forces.  The Caca commander orders his remaining ships to get away as they
can, then is incapacitated during the escape.  The Great Admiral’s second
in command does the unthinkable and surrenders the remaining fleet.

The Emperor discovers
that about a billion New Moscow citizens are being held in the former Kingdom
of New Moscow, including over seven hundred million on the homeworld.  The
Cacas are processing the humans for their protein, and Sean orders their rescue
at all costs.   A combined New Terran Empire, New Terran Republic and
Crakista fleet invades the space of New Moscow, intent on rescuing the
prisoners.  The main concern is that the Cacas will kill their captives
before the ground forces can rescue them.  Using their wormhole
technology, the Empire is able to insert a heavy corps and numerous special ops
teams, including a company led by Cornelius Walborski, to storm the camps and
rescue the hundreds of millions of prisoners.

The prisoners are freed,
and the Empire starts to evacuate them through wormholes, while a massive Caca
fleet is tracked on the way to the system, due to arrive well before the main
Imperial force.  The Fenri, with Ca’cadasan help, strike at the Imperial
force invading their space, and inflict a significant defeat on them,
sidetracking the invasion force and compelling the Imperials to go back on the
defensive so they can regroup.

Commodore Natasha Sung
reaches the space of the rumored power fighting the Ca’cadasans on the other
side of their Empire.  She finds that the Klavarta, as they call
themselves, are actually genetically engineered human warriors created by the
survivors of the
Exodus
IV
, thought to have been destroyed.  It is discovered that the original
leaders of that mission still controlled the New Earth, as their nation was
called.  They were clones, a process that allowed humans to live past
their normal life span with artificially grown bodies with one fatal
flaw.  They were all psychopaths, and these leaders had led their people
in a campaign of genocide against many of their neighbors, making them hated in
their own region.  Still, the Empire works to forge an alliance, though
the Emperor has doubts that Parliament and the citizenry will approve that
treaty.

The Fenri are pushed back
by a new Imperial offensive, losing much of their space and their fleet. 
What seems like a complete victory for the humans turns into a stalemate as the
Fenri turn to a war of raids and ambushes.  The Cacas appear quiescent, as
they gear up for another offensive against human kingdoms.

An assassin attempts to
take out the Emperor and Empress, but hesitates in taking the shot, then is
chased away by security.  Angel, an ex-Naval Commando, wonders why he is
working for the kind of people that would kill the leader of their kingdom
during wartime.  He decides he is fighting for the wrong people, and
determines to take out the traitors who threaten the Empire

A Ca’cadasan fleet,
working with intelligence giving them the location of the Klavarta homeworld,
moves to strike, while the Empire plans their own strike to take out the cloned
leadership of New Earth.  The Cacas strike, and the Empire is forced to
advance their own operation, killing the clones while at the same time
reinforcing the Klavarta with some of their own forces through wormhole
gates.  The Cacas win the battle, but the Empire is able to evacuate most
of the Klavarta and their pure human masters through the wormhole.  Sean
then orders a wormhole equipped ship throughthe wormhole gate, causing an
enormous explosion that destroys almost half the Ca’cadasan fleet. The Klavarta
are reorganized as the leaders of their nation, and the Nation of New Earth is
created to occupy the area formerly ruled by the clones, from there to continue
the war of the second front.

The Cacas no longer
operating near the New Terran Empire, emphasis shifts toward the Fenri Empire,
on their heels and all but defeated.  They release a number of raider teams to
attack the shipping and planets of the Empire, battleships and battle cruisers
searching the transit lanes, far from the bulk of the Imperial Fleet.  It is up
to the outmanned light ships of a quiet sector to track down these ships and
destroy them.  After several hard fought battles they take down the raiders and
foil the plans of the Fenri Emperor.

On the Second Front the
Cacas begin another offensive, this time under a commander that has more
intelligence than most.  The Klavarta and their allies from the Empire at first
fall to the Cacas, then fall back into a planned retreat, eventually catching
the invaders in a suboptimum deployment and turning the enemy advance into a
retreat.

About the
Author

Doug Dandridge is the author of over twenty-five
self-published books on Amazon, including the very successful, Exodus: Empires
at War series, the Refuge techno-fantasy series, The Deep Dark Well Trilogy, as
well as numerous standalone science fiction and fantasy novels.  In a two
and a half year period as a self-published author, Doug has sold over one
hundred and twenty-five thousand ebooks, paperbacks and audio books.  He
has amassed over 1,800 reviews across his books on Amazon, with a 4.6 star
average. He served in the US Army as an infantryman, as well as several years
in the Florida National Guard in the same MOS.  Doug, who holds degrees
from Florida State University and the University of Alabama, lives with his
five cats and one outnumbered dog in Tallahassee Florida.  He is a sports
enthusiast and a self-proclaimed amateur military historian.

Books by Doug
Dandridge

Science Fiction

The Deep Dark Well
Trilogy

The Deep Dark Well
:  An Adventure 40,000
years in the making.  Pandora Latham was a Kuiper Belt Miner from
Alabama.  She’s used to landing on her feet, even when the next surface is
through a wormhole, halfway across the Galaxy and 46,000 years in the
Future.  Pandora must discover the secret behind the end of civilization,
and the enigma of the Immortal Watcher, the last survivor of the Empire that
once ruled the stars.  Her decisions will set the path for Galactic
recovery, or a continuation down the roads of Barbarism.

To Well and Back
:  Pandora Latham is back,
working Watcher’s plan to restore Galactic Civilization.  But first she
has to deal with the Xenophobes of the Nation of Humanity, back in the
Supersystem with their sights set on making the Galaxy their own.  Pandora
is angry at the hyper religious Nation, and you don’t want to make a woman from
Alabama angry.

Deeper and Darker
:  Pandora Latham is on the
warpath.  Watcher, her lover, and the only man who can once again unite
the Galaxy, is a prisoner of the Totalitarian government of the New Galactic Empire. 
The Empire thinks they have the upper hand, but they have never faced someone
like Pandi, and the peoples of the Galaxy that she has rallied to her cause.

Theocracy:
   A young gunpowder era monk
becomes the only hope for his doomed world as he is caught up in the game of
empire between two more advanced cultures.

The Exodus Series

Exodus: Empires at War: Book 1
:  The
introduction to the Exodus Universe.  Two thousand years prior mankind
fled from the Predatory Ca’cadasans, traveling a thousand years and ten
thousand light years to a new home.  Now the greatest power of their
sector of space, things seem to be going well for the New Terran Empire. 
Until the enemy appears once again at the gates.  And the years have not
softened the aliens’ stance toward Humanity.

Exodus: Empires at War: Book 2
:  The saga
continues.  The Ca’cadasans attack at the moment when the government of
the Empire is at its most chaotic.  There are other enemies as well,
waiting for their chance to fall on the overwhelmed humans.  And a young
man with no ambition for power finds himself in the position he most dreads.

Exodus: Empires at War: Book 3
:  Sean is
rescued, but he is not about to go back to the safety of the capital without
striking back at the Ca’cadasans who have invaded his Empire.  But will
his decision put the lives of thousands at risk, as well as risking the safety
of his own Empire, by depriving it of its leader.

Exodus: Empires at War: Book 4:
  Sean is crowned
Emperor, and attempts to organize the Empire for war against the Ca’cadasans. 
But he finds that planning battles and winning battles are two different
things. Defeat follows defeat.  Can anyone snatch victory from the jaws of
defeat?  Or will the new Emperor fail before his reign even really begins.

Exodus: Empires at War: Book 5: Ranger:
 
Cornelius Walbroski enters the rigors of Ranger training, becoming one of the
augmented warriors of the Empire.  But his first assignment, Azure, is one
of the most deadly planets in the Galaxy, even prior to the coming of the
Cacas.  Can Cornelius survive his first mission?  Or will 
promising career end before it really begins.

Exodus: Empires at War: Book 6: The Day of Battle:
 
Sean and the Empire need a victory before human morale goes completely into the
black hole.  He develops a plan to bring the Ca’cadasans into battle in
space of his choosing.  But the Cacas are not an easy opponent, and they
have plans of their own, for the
Donut.

Exodus: Empires at War: Book 7: Counter Strike
: 
The Empire has weathered the Ca’cadasan onslaught, and now it’s the time to
strike back with an offensive of their own.  A victory could win the
war.  But will it?

Exodus: Empires at War: Book 8: Soldiers
: 
The Cacas have been ejected from Imperial space, for the moment.  But
millions of citizens of New Moscow are still held captive in death camps in their
former empire, processed for rations for the large aliens.  Sean is
determined to save as many as he can, and the Fleet and Army are prepared to
carry out his directive; free the prisoners at all costs.

Exodus: Empires at War: Book 9: Second Front
: 
The exploration mission sent around the edge of the Ca’cadasan Empire has found
the other Empire at war with the large aliens.  They are not as expected,
and Sean must order his military to perform actions that could vilify him in
the eyes of his new allies.

Exodus: Empires at War: Book 10: Search & Destroy:
 The Fenri, all but
beaten, have not given up, and their new plan promises random death and
destruction in the Empire.  The Cacas have launched a new offensive against the
Klavarta, and their new commander is much more intelligent than the last.

Exodus: Tales of the Empire: Exploration Command:
  Three novelettes
concerning Exploration Command, the arm of the Fleet tasked with pushing back
the boundaries of the Empire, and discovering the technology needed to win the
war.

Exodus: Tales of the Empire: Beasts of the Frontier:
 
Three novelettes and three short stories about the dangers of the frontiers of
the Empire.  The Cacas are not the only threat.  Sometime the danger
is the wild, at other times, other humans.

Exodus: Machine War: Book 1: Supernova
: 
When a civilization is discovered that has a special ability that would be of
tremendous benefit to the Empire, great excitement is generated.  When it
is found that a nearby blue giant star is due to supernova in less than a year,
destroying that world, excitement turns to a frantic race to save as much of
that species as possible.  And enemies from the past, lurking in space,
bring forth a new war to the embattled Empire.

Exodus: Machine War: Book 2: Bolthole
:  The
Machine Intelligences are back, with a vengeance.  While the Empire is
busy fighting a war of survival against the Cacas, the murderous killing
machines they had created hundreds of years prior are now ready to strike
back.  And the Imperial stronghold of Bolthole is in their sights. 

Other Scifi

Diamonds in the Sand
:  When a perfectly
healthy scientist falls dead of an apparent heart attack, it is up to Sarasota
Police Detective Lieutenant Gary Lariviere to find out what really
happened.  The scientist was working on Nanotechnology, a secret desired
by everyone from the Government to the Mob.  There are too many suspects,
including the woman that Gary comes to love.  The Army had made Gary
better than human, but had they prepared him for the terrors that had been
unleashed by the new technology?

The Scorpion
:  The Scorpion had been the
world’s deadliest living terrorist.  Kestral McMann had been in on the
kill.  Now The Scorpion is back as a mind upload, using clones to
penetrate the tight security of an isolationist United States.  McMann is
the only man who can stop him.  But can McMann survive the threat of his
own side, and the insane President who leads the Nation, in time to stop The
Scorpion from plunging the Great Satan back into the Stone Age.

The Shadows of the Multiverse
:  Something
has been periodically wiping intelligence from our Universe through the
ages.  It’s back, and it’s up to three unlikely heroes, the Captain of a
Battle Cruiser, a Physicist turned Archeologist, and a Child, to save the
intelligence of the Universe from Monsters from another Dimension.  Can
they learn to use the powers of their unusual Quantum Minds to defeat creatures
that have been playing the game for billions of years?

Afterlife
:  What if you didn’t believe in
the afterlife of the World’s Religions?  And what if science offered you
the alternative, survival within the Virtual World of a computer, where your
mental abilities are magnified and you can do anything you want?  And what
if the World decided that your way was wrong, and declared war on you, meaning
to destroy your reality?  What would you do?  Afterlife, a tale of
survival at all costs.

We Are Death, Come For You
:  When aliens
strike the Tau Ceti colony, humankind knows that something bad is on the
way.  They prepare as best they can, but will it be enough against
superior technology?  The aliens are death worshippers, and only the
extinction of the human race will satisfy their evil intent.  There are
wonders of tech on the horizon, but can they be deployed in time?  Or will
humankind have to depend on the smallest of their techs to save them?

Fantasy

The Refuge Series

Refuge: The Arrival: Book 1
:  A nuclear war
in Central Europe opens the gates between dimensions, sending millions of Earth
Humans into a land of myth, archetypes and fantasy.  The Evil Emperor of
the Ellala Elves sees the humans as energy to fuel his transformation to
immortality.  But the humans have brought their own weapons with them, as
well as a race of Demigods who will battle the fantastic armies of
Refuge.  The war is on, and only one side will ultimately survive.

Refuge: The Arrival: Book 2
:  The Ellala
have a plan to destroy the human military and capture the civilians.  And
the humans find that their weapons will soon cease to function.  So it’s
use it or lose it for the Earth Humans, and they use it with a vengeance. 
Tanks against Mages, Attack Helicopters against Dragons, and Nuclear Weapons
against Death Gods.  And the other peoples of the planet come forth as
allies to the humans that they see as the fulfillment an Ancient
Prophecy.  But will it be enough?

Refuge: Book 3: The Legions
:  The human
invaders are now without their technologies, at least those using explosives
and internal combustion engines.  But they still have knowledge of many
other techs, especially the arts of warfare as practiced by the greatest
infantry of the ancient world.  Will it be enough to stand up to the half
lich Emperor and his magical forces.

Refuge: Book 4: Kurt’s Quest:
 When the evil
half lich Emperor sends his minions on a mission to find the Crown of the Lost
Gods, an artifact which can control the minds of millions, it is up to Kurt von
Mannerheim to stop them.  Along with his fellow immortal, Jackie Smith,
the human Physicist/Mage James Drake, the Ellala Ranger Fenris and the Grimakan
Priest Garios, they must head to the frozen north to foil the plan, and ensure
that the evil artifact never sees the light of day.

Refuge: Doppelganger
: Set thousands of years
after the arrival, Kurt von Mannerheim, the Immortal Emperor of the Imperium of
Free Nations, must give up everything to save his Empress, the Elfin Princess
Gwenara Elysius von Mannerheim.  The world is at a crisis point as the
Evil Tarakesh Empire, under its Immortal Emperor Heinrich Stuppleheim, prepares
to overrun the world with its Nazi Ideology.  And Kurt must face a
creature of legend that may prove too much for even his physical and mental
abilities.

Other Fantasy

The Hunger
:  Abused wife, drug addict,
prostitute; Lucinda Taylor had been victimized by men all her adult life. 
Left for dead by her pimp, Lucinda was turned by a passing vampire.  When
he is destroyed she becomes a free agent, slaking her hunger for blood on the
bottom dwellers of society, the type of men who once victimized her.  The
crime boss of Tampa is her next target, and the City by the Bay is about to
become a bloodbath.  But can Lucinda avoid those who are hunting for her;
the Priest, the FBI man, and a pair of Vampires who would like nothing better
than to send one Avenging Vampire forever into the dark?

Daemon
:  A Steampunk Fantasy.  The world
is dying, the victim of the magic used by society for the last three hundred
years.  Daemon Corporation thinks they have the answer, stealing the life
from other worlds, bringing from other dimensions the intelligences that
inhabit them for sacrifice on Earth.  But something has come with them, a
force that is killing the employees of Daemon Corp.  It is up to Forensic
Mage Detective Jude Parkinson to find a way to stop the unstoppable, while
keeping the head of Daemon Corp from silencing him to keep the dark secrets of
the company out of the public eye.

Aura
:  Triplets are born on a world where
the magical Aura decides the fate of its owner.  Ariel is a girl with more
than double the normal Aura, destined to become a mighty Priest or Mage. 
Aiden has a less than normal Aura, and is destined to be a soldier or
laborer.  While Arlen has no Aura at all, and is seen as an abomination in
the eyes of the Church of Baalra the Dragon God, which has no power over those
with Negative Auras.  Fate will rip the siblings apart, then bring them
back together as they battle to defeat the Dragon God and leave the Evil
Empire, before Ariel is taken as the Avatar of Baalra, his mortal vessel on
Earth.