At this point, they also use nerve gas to kill everyone in major settlements.

Then, the seed ship lands pods that both release Lankies and construct giant terraforming units.

First, a Lanky seed ship (or 20 in the case of the Solar System) appears in orbit and destroys any other ship in space, without even attempting to communicate.

Aliens Are Bastards: A Lanky assault proceeds as follows:.

She even does a long tour as a combat flight instructor and is one of the few pilots cleared to fly the most advanced dropship in the fleet, the 160th SOAR note Special Operations Aviation Regiment's Blackfly. She is repeatedly described as a natural drop ship pilot and among her awards are several Silver Stars and Distinguished Flying Crosses for bravery in combat.

Ace Pilot: A lot of drop ship pilots are, but Andrew's wife, Lieutenant Diana Halley, is one of the best.

There are also two novels written in the same universe, Lucky Thirteen and Measures of Absolution, both published in 2013. Instead of what he expected (fighting the Sino-Russian Alliance for control of colony worlds), he gets a front row seat to First Contact with the Lankies, 20 meter tall, nigh-unkillable aliens seemingly determined to exterminate humanity. They follow the career of Andrew Grayson, a young man from a Public Residence Cluster located in Boston who joins the military of the North American Commonwealth for the same two reasons everyone else does: real food instead of soy-based and recycled proteins and the paycheck a soldier gets as a lump sum at the end of his or her service.Īs is usually the case with these sorts of stories, Andrew gets a lot more than he's bargained for. The books are set in the Dystopian universe of the 22nd century, where Earth is overpopulated and countries spend taxpayer money on space fleets and colonizing far off worlds instead of on infrastructure. But as he starts a career of supposed privilege, he soon learns that the good food and decent health care come at a steep price?and that the settled galaxy holds far greater dangers than military bureaucrats or the gangs that rule the slums.The Frontlines series is an 8-book Military Science Fiction series written by German-American author Marko Kloos. For welfare rats like Andrew Grayson, there are only two ways out of the crime-ridden and filthy welfare tenements, where you're restricted to two thousand calories of badly flavored soy every day:You can hope to win the lottery and draw a ticket on a colony ship settling off-world, or you can join the service.With the colony lottery a pipe dream, Andrew chooses to enlist in the armed forces for a shot at real food, a retirement bonus, and maybe a ticket off Earth.

The year is 2108, and the North American Commonwealth is bursting at the seams.

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