Starbound

A thrilling action-adventure space opera set in a distant war-torn future.

Dave Bara has always loved space programs, astronauts, and science fiction. His writing is influenced by Herbert and Asimov, among many others. His Lightship Chronicles series launches a writing career sure to be full of heroic characters and intergalactic adventures.

THE FIRST EMPIRE HAS RETURNED. 
 
THE NEW GALACTIC UNION HANGS IN THE BALANCE… 
 
The Lightship Impulse is gone, sacrificed while defeating First Empire ships the fragile new galactic alliance hoped it would never see again. 
 
For Peter Cochrane, serving as third officer on the Starbound and tasked with investigating a mysterious space station in a newly re-discovered system, the wounds of battle may have healed, but the war is far from over...

The Lightship Chronicles

Impulse

A groundbreaking new action adventure Space Opera.

If you liked Star Trek Into Darkness, you’ll like Dave Bara’s IMPULSE.

author of the New York Times bestselling Lost Fleet series

Totally convincing space navy . . . check! Perfectly realized characters complete with depth and heroism . . . check! Plus a fascinating story with an Ahab of a captain determined to complete his mission, and a fledgling lieutenant who comes into his own in the midst of interstellar conflict. Oh yeah: exploding spaceships . . . double check!

IMPULSE is fun, fast, and proper science fiction. Where the stakes are big, and things matter because the characters matter. I enjoyed the hell out of this. Impulse should be an impulse buy.

bestselling author of the Deathstalker series

This first in the series promises some epic dust-ups

Impulse shows what J. J. Abrams could have done with Into Darkness if he was less obsessed with flashy effects and more interested in substantial storytelling

Dave Bara is from Seattle, Washington, and has worked a Business Analyst, Technical Writer, Editor, and Project Manager in the aerospace, internet, software, wireless, electrical power utility and financial industries. 
 
Dave grew up as a fan of the Gemini and Apollo space programs and has published various short stories and has one published novel, Speedwing, in eBook from small US publisher Whisky Creek Press. 
 
He currently lives in Auburn, Washington.

A remote solar system 
A fragile galactic alliance 
An interstellar war is on the brink of eruption... 
 
When the Lightship Impulse is attacked without provocation, Lt. Peter Cochrane, son of the Grand Admiral, is sent to investigate. 
 
His first deep space mission, this isn't what Peter has spent three years in training for. Surrounded by strangers and following secret orders, is he willing to do what it takes to keep the alliance together? Even mutiny? 
 
Book one in The Lightship Chronicles, a groundbreaking new action-adventure space opera from Dave Bara

Dave Bara

Lt. Peter Cochrane and his new wife, Karina, are under attack. 
 
When Peter and Karina escape an assault by a hostile government on his new command, Defiant, he travels with his wife to fend off an Empire attack on Skondar – which just so happens to be where his ex-lover, Dorbina, is stationed. 
 
Worse still, the attack is led by Prince Arin, the Butcher of Carinthia. As dark secrets that could change everything are revealed, Peter must face the battle of his life – one that could save the human race, or doom it… 
 
Book three in The Lightship Chronicles, a groundbreaking new-action adventure space opera from Dave Bara

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