To complicate matters further, Geary also needs to return safely to Alliance space not only with representatives of the Dancers, an alien species, but also with Invincible, a captured warship that could possibly be the most valuable object in human history. Seeking to escape both their prison and Syndic space, will Geary and Aragon join forces to get home — or will the hatreds stirred by a decades-old war kill them both? The Alliance woke Captain John "Black Jack" Geary from cryogenic sleep to take command of the fleet in the century-long conflict against the Syndicate Worlds.
Now Fleet Admiral Geary's victory has earned him the adoration of the people-and the enmity of politicians convinced that a living hero can be a very inconvenient thing. Geary knows that members of the military high command and the government question his loyalty to the Alliance and fear his staging a coup-so he can't help but wonder if the newly christened First Fleet is being deliberately sent to the far side of space on a suicide mission.
But his superiors question his loyalty to the regime. Attacked without warning, he orders the fleet to jump star systems—only to enter the crosshairs of another hostile alien armada. Now Geary must find a way to reach the jump point without massive casualties—even though the enigmas could be waiting on the other side…. After rescuing POWs from a labor camp in the Heradao Star System, Captain John "Black Jack" Geary discovers that the Syndics plan to ambush his fleet, forcing him to jump from one star system to the next in an effort to avoid the enemy.
Before Iceni and Drakon can put their house in order, they must deal with an even greater threat. An enigma warship has appeared and vanished near a Syndic colony.
If the aliens are capable of jumping into other human-occupied star systems, then billions of people could be vulnerable to a hostile invasion fleet anywhere they choose to strike. But an even greater vulnerability lies with Iceni and Drakon, as a once-trusted adviser-turned-saboteur plans revenge The wait is over. Another former CEO has taken control of the Ulindi Star System, the first calculated move toward establishing his own little empire.
Following a successful coup against the tyrannical Syndicate, the leaders of the rebel Midway Star System work to forge a government free enough to please its citizens yet strong enough to secure power.
But in a world where former rulers have become new foes, an alien threat to humanity may turn old adversaries into uncertain allies. President Gwen Iceni believes Midway is their only defense against the enigmas.
Now, with an enigma fleet menacing their hard-earned independence, he can ill afford to trust her—or lose her support. But in the back of his mind, there are three words that describe someone who confides in a Syndicate CEO: Stupid. Geary has made many risky decisions as commander of the Alliance fleet, but ordering them back to the Lakota Star System where the Syndics nearly destroyed them has his officers questioning his sanity. Even as he struggles to give the fleet a fighting chance at survival, Geary faces dissent from within.
An unknown number of officers want a change of command, but Geary knows that the Alliance fleet must stand together, or else the Syndic forces will tear them apart After rescuing POWs from a labor camp in the Heradao Star System, Captain John "Black Jack" Geary discovers that the Syndics plan to ambush his fleet, forcing him to jump from one star system to the next in an effort to avoid the enemy.
Alliance prisoners of war are being held at a labor camp in the Heradao star system, which also happens to be the location of the majority of the surviving Syndic warships. The raid is successful, but victory is short-lived.
And as Geary has the fleet jump from one star system to the next, hoping to avoid the inevitable confrontation, saboteurs contribute to the chaos Now Victorious leads the charge again-and "Black Jack" Geary is in command As war continues to rage between the Alliance and Syndicate Worlds, Captain "Black Jack" Geary is promoted to admiral-even though the ruling council fears he may stage a military coup.
His new rank gives him the authority to negotiate with the Syndics, who have suffered tremendous losses and may finally be willing to end the war. But an even greater alien threat lurks on the far side of the Syndic occupied space. Geary is convinced that the Syndics are planning to ambush the fleet and finish it off once and for all. There, a multitude of possible routes home give the Alliance fleet a better chance of avoiding their pursuers—and an attack on the Sancere shipbuilding facilities could decimate the Syndic war effort.
The Lost Fleet continues its perilous journey home. Badly damaged and low on supplies, the Alliance Fleet is raiding Syndic mines for raw materials-and Captain "Black Jack" Geary hopes they can continue to remain one step ahead of their enemies.
But the Syndics are the least of Geary's worries when he learns of the existence of aliens with the power to annihilate the human race. The warships are no mystery to Geary. They were developed by his government to ensure security, but malfunctioned. If the Syndics learn the truth, the war with the Alliance will resume with a vengeance. Don't ask me to explain. In an earlier review of an even wo 3. In an earlier review of an even worse military sci-fi series I blamed it on an unhealthy teenage diet of Robert Heinlein and Star Trek.
But sometimes you just need some mindless escapism. In the latest installment, our hero Black Jack Geary, after saving the Alliance from Its Greatest Threat tm , now has to clean up the morass of political corruption that created IGT in the first place. After delivering the damning evidence he gets shipped off on another impossible mission from which he may not return that's 3 times in a row now Black Jack, aren't you beginning to see a pattern?
Campbell is using this latest series Lost Fleet: Outlands to bring together all the threads from his far flung spinoffs towards what I suspect is supposed to be a conclusion for example he's dropping hints that Black Jack and his favorite space captain may settle down and get domestic. But who knows? Book 1 of the third series. Spoilers ahead for the first two. Opens with delivering evidence, facing assassination attempts, hearing progress, and getting orders.
It includes a shakedown journey with leave in the middle, negotiations, Black Jack being significant, Syndicate prisoners, objections to calling the Dancers by that name even though they won't tell their own they answer we or us when asked , and more.
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