Ian Douglas
1) Star marines
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2007
Description
With the planet's fighting men and women deployed across the galaxy-battling in the noble cause of enslaved humanity-the insidious Xul have reached across space to devastate the unsuspecting Earth with asteroid fire. Without warning, a once majestic world is reduced to near-rubble-and the very future of humankind is in dire jeopardy.
Interplanetary leaders are on the brink of abandoning Earth and its colonies to an overwhelming enemy. But Brigadier...
2) Star Corps
Author
Series
The legacy trilogy volume 1
Pub. Date
2003
Description
In the future,
earth's warriors have
conquered the heavens.
But on a distant world,
Humanity is in chains ...
Many millennia ago, the human race was enslaved by the An -- a fearsome alien people whose cruel empire once spanned the galaxies, until they were defeated and consigned to oblivion. But a research mission to the planet Ishtar has made a terrifying -- and fatal -- discovery: the Ahanu, ancestors of the former masters, live on, far from...
3) Star Strike
Author
Series
Pub. Date
c2008
Description
The United Star Marines, who have operated unnoticed for years after the mighty Xul nearly destroyed Earth, journey to the farthest reaches of the galaxy to destroy the tyrants who dominate the universe.
Author
Series
Andromedan Dark volume 1
Pub. Date
2016
Description
Thirty-eight years after first contact, Lord Commander Grayson St. Clair leads the Tellus Ad Astra on an unprecedented expedition to the Galactic Core, carrying more than a million scientists, diplomats, soldiers, and AIs. Despite his reservations about their alien hosts, St. Clair is deeply committed to his people, especially after they're sucked into a black hole and spat out four billion years in the future.