The Defiant Stand (The Vethrak Requiem)

The Vethrak Requiem - Book 1.5

Humanity is building its first extrasolar fleet. The ships that will carry that mission sit in drydock, weeks from launch. That leaves one warship operational in the entire Sol System.

The UENS Defiant.

Captain Marcus Rivera commands her, though some days his own mind is the greater threat. The invasion broke something in him that discipline alone cannot fix. His brother David serves as his XO, holding Marcus together while wondering when he gets to be more than his brother’s keeper.

A critical fuel processing facility on Titan goes dark. Without its fuel, the extrasolar fleet never launches. Extremists who believe humanity’s reach for the stars is a death sentence have seized the station and built something worse: a beacon from salvaged Vethrak technology that would scream humanity’s status across the void.

One ship. Two brothers. A signal that would call back the enemy they barely survived.