Sunday, August 3, 2025

Dark Empire Book Six: Advance and Retreat - Excerpt Thirteen

 

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The Galactic Council’s secretary-general is sentenced.

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The Mereta will die this evening.

Mereta hoped the sudden quickening of his heartbeat was due to his Dark rider as the All gave its command. Hadn’t he come to terms with death years ago? It was merely a transition from this life to the next.

If the Dark noted the momentary rising of his pulse as odd, it didn’t seem to attribute it to anything in particular. Perhaps it hadn’t noticed. How is it to happen?

Two Kalquorian prisoners will be used to assassinate the Mereta, then be killed themselves by Galactic Council security officers. It will happen during a scheduled vid speech the Mereta is to give to those planets remaining allied to the governing body. It will help convince more of the Separates they should remain allied to the council, and therefore quiet the protests against the leaders controlled by the All.

Some will see the All’s presence on those involved in this plot.

No matter. It will confuse those who don’t see. Their questions will cause chaos, which is to the advantage.  It is good.

It is good.

Mereta detected a slight hesitation before his rider’s response. Did it have questions of its own?

It did. After his death this portion shall rejoin the All?

No. Another Separate is to be occupied.

A definite hesitation. It is good.

His rider’s reluctance was of no matter. The Dark would obey the All’s decision and offer him up for sacrifice.

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Victories against invasion have been won, but the galaxy may be lost in the end. 

Clan Piras has landed on enemy-occupied Jedver to enact a daring rescue of the Galactic Council’s leader. The foursome of Piras, Hope, Lokmi, and Kila have no backup, no allies except those who can be bought, and almost no chance of success. Is this finally the end for the Kalquorian Empire’s celebrated spies? 

There may be no escape from the All’s extermination plans for the dimension. Emperor Clajak has one last card up his sleeve, however: a band of misfit renegade Kalquorians called the Coydidak. Only with their help and an impossible mission to beyond the known reaches of the universe can Kalquor hope to preserve life. 

A determined engineer is at the top of the list of Coydidak leader Dramok Rorix’s least favorite humans. She’ll stop at nothing to board his ship for a one-way voyage that’s to last a lifetime. Is ultimate freedom from the empire worth dealing with the beautiful but unrelenting Laughter Lorenz? 

As the clock ticks to the end of Dr. Cassidy Hamilton’s pregnancy and potentially life in the dimension, she works feverishly to find a way to destroy the All. A visit from an undiscovered entity brings to light her greatest hope and worst fear. Only time will tell if this new being is friend or foe…but Cassidy’s time and that of her soon-to-be-born child is almost up. 

Adventure. Danger. Intrigue. Romance that outburns the sun in any galaxy. It’s all here in the sixth installment of the Dark Empire series.

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