Dark Messiah

Dark Messiah
“The universe isn’t empty. Life is everywhere and it wants the same things we want. For the Sanctuary to expand, someone has to get their hands dirty.” Karlo Dajek

Dark Messiah is a highly original and entertaining tale of survival that will take you to a universe so different from anything you could imagine, yet so believable that you will never want to leave.

Book one - Mirafan
“To produce true believers long-term, a civilisation must deliver good lives on the ground for everyone, not just the pampered elite.” Korad

Marc Lester’s father left Earth when he was five years old. Because Marc could pass for human, he enjoyed a normal childhood with his mother before joining the army. After four years in uniform, an improvised explosive device took both his legs. His miraculous recovery made him a person of interest. The time for Marc to escape Earth and join his father had arrived.

Many believed that Marc was destined for great things, including Meru, the Sanctuary’s living goddess. Thanks to flitters gossiping away on the zero-offset, at depots, in hangars and elsewhere, fellows at the Margaven Institute on Danzek Aric soon agreed that the true Crasna Katek had been born.

Book Two - True Believer
“The Sanctuary takes a dim view of slavery, pragmatic accomodations in the middle of absolutely nowhere notwithstanding!” Evinse niDenesc

Nearly two centuries after the events in Mirafan, the War for Infaran’s Last Arm rages on. Most of Marc Lester’s time on the hardlines in Miroku Daman’s leading edge is spent waiting for something to happen. When it does, it happens fast. Mistakes are not allowed, because a whole world depends on a few brave souls when a Narkassan assault group breaches in.

While on the hardline 2Dek off the Doisan Linnora, Marc accesses a safon that comes with an appended snippet. He does not recall attaching Ashaia’s cry for help 176years earlier, yet he soon finds himself on a destructive quest to Kalbrun, 15million light years away. Ashaia becomes aware of Marc’s endeavour, but is powerless to stop the bloodshed that she unleashed.

Book Three - Danzek Aric
“Because even now, your boy is convinced that I’m just trying to scare him.” Navard

Danzek Aric picks up the story a couple of chimes before the end of True Believer. The Rivas Effect can do anything, but can it change the past? If not, serious bumps in the road lie ahead for Meru and the Sanctuary.

In Sorbrun, Reymer and Ashaia still languish as hostages on Tellur, a fusion of corporate kleptocracy and sexist, feudal delusion. They enjoy the life that Fate has given them as best they can, aware that Sorbrun will eventually become part of the Sanctuary. When that happens, only the Andurai Empire will stand between the Sanctuary and the Tocmec Reach. Meru will die young, unless she has something of value to offer the Tocmec. At this moment she does not, although the potential has been there for aeons.