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Imperium #2
Imperium: Revelation
The story so far:
On a mission to welcome the protected planet, Heaven, ascend into the Empire following its first successful manned space flight, an attempt on Emperor Alexander's life sets off a chain of events with unforeseen consequences for everyone.
In the aftermath of the attempt, Emperor Alexander, at the behest of Duke Frederick, took his personal task force of capital ships to attack a pirate base and at the same time brought forward the training of his headstrong son, Adam, the Crown Prince. Alexander sends him away for safety and training, ostensibly to a loyal branch of the Imperial Navy, far away from the intrigue of the royal court and safe from the plotters. En route, a sabotaged ship’s Jump drive sends Adam to an unknown star system, far away from the life he knew and safety.
After landing secretly on the system’s only habitable planet, called Earth by the people of the world, Adam is seriously injured in a road traffic accident while saving the life of Doctor Karen McLeod. Because of his genetically enhanced metabolism, Adam recovers far faster than normal and a grateful Karen allows him into her life and ultimately her heart. Believing himself stranded on Earth for the rest of his life and with no means of communicating home, Adam begins to come to terms with his changed status, with only Vimes, his symbiotic aide, to guide and teach him.
Near the pirate base, another attempt on Alexander’s life sees both he and his task-force almost destroyed in a clever trap. Only quick thinking by Admiral Frith manages to keep them alive, albeit at the loss of most of their ships. Although successful in defeating the enemy, they are stranded in the star system by a de-stabilised Jump Point, and watch helplessly as another, larger enemy fleet emerges from behind a nearby gas giant and approaches their position, intent on finishing them off. With what’s left of his task force unable to escape before the Jump Point stabilises, Alexander is faced with a dilemma: does he use an ultra-secret Jump technology to escape, leaving his men to face the approaching fleet without him, or does he abandon his duty to the Empire by staying and dying with his men?
Empress Christine, is having her own problems on Capital, planetary home to the Imperial Palace and Court. An assassination attempt on her life, timed to coincide with that on her husband, sees hundreds killed in the Palace. With the help of a Palace woodsman, Francis De’ath, she barely escaped with her life, leaving Francis on death’s door. Badly shaken by the attempt and news that her husband is dead at the hands of the rebellion, which now controls a third of the Empire, Christine decides to get her son and bring him home from training.
The first book concluded with Empress Christine on Earth, surprising a startled Karen the morning after she and Adam had spent their first night together.
How did Christine find Adam when he was supposedly lost in space? What happens to the Emperor and who was behind the revolt?
Imperium: Revelation, the second book in the Imperium trilogy, provides the answers, moving between 1940's England, the present day, and Felidae space in the continuing epic tale of war, love, and duty.
On a mission to welcome the protected planet, Heaven, ascend into the Empire following its first successful manned space flight, an attempt on Emperor Alexander's life sets off a chain of events with unforeseen consequences for everyone.
In the aftermath of the attempt, Emperor Alexander, at the behest of Duke Frederick, took his personal task force of capital ships to attack a pirate base and at the same time brought forward the training of his headstrong son, Adam, the Crown Prince. Alexander sends him away for safety and training, ostensibly to a loyal branch of the Imperial Navy, far away from the intrigue of the royal court and safe from the plotters. En route, a sabotaged ship’s Jump drive sends Adam to an unknown star system, far away from the life he knew and safety.
After landing secretly on the system’s only habitable planet, called Earth by the people of the world, Adam is seriously injured in a road traffic accident while saving the life of Doctor Karen McLeod. Because of his genetically enhanced metabolism, Adam recovers far faster than normal and a grateful Karen allows him into her life and ultimately her heart. Believing himself stranded on Earth for the rest of his life and with no means of communicating home, Adam begins to come to terms with his changed status, with only Vimes, his symbiotic aide, to guide and teach him.
Near the pirate base, another attempt on Alexander’s life sees both he and his task-force almost destroyed in a clever trap. Only quick thinking by Admiral Frith manages to keep them alive, albeit at the loss of most of their ships. Although successful in defeating the enemy, they are stranded in the star system by a de-stabilised Jump Point, and watch helplessly as another, larger enemy fleet emerges from behind a nearby gas giant and approaches their position, intent on finishing them off. With what’s left of his task force unable to escape before the Jump Point stabilises, Alexander is faced with a dilemma: does he use an ultra-secret Jump technology to escape, leaving his men to face the approaching fleet without him, or does he abandon his duty to the Empire by staying and dying with his men?
Empress Christine, is having her own problems on Capital, planetary home to the Imperial Palace and Court. An assassination attempt on her life, timed to coincide with that on her husband, sees hundreds killed in the Palace. With the help of a Palace woodsman, Francis De’ath, she barely escaped with her life, leaving Francis on death’s door. Badly shaken by the attempt and news that her husband is dead at the hands of the rebellion, which now controls a third of the Empire, Christine decides to get her son and bring him home from training.
The first book concluded with Empress Christine on Earth, surprising a startled Karen the morning after she and Adam had spent their first night together.
How did Christine find Adam when he was supposedly lost in space? What happens to the Emperor and who was behind the revolt?
Imperium: Revelation, the second book in the Imperium trilogy, provides the answers, moving between 1940's England, the present day, and Felidae space in the continuing epic tale of war, love, and duty.
369 pages, Kindle Edition
Published August 13, 2016
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