The Intrepid Saga

As the Sol System collapses, General Tanis Richards leads the GSS Intrepid — humanity's largest colony ship — on a generation-spanning voyage to found a new home among the stars. The Intrepid Saga is an epic hard-military space opera about sabotage, colonization, and survival across more than a century of interstellar travel.

By M. D. Cooper

Books in this series

  • Outsystem

    Book 1

    Demoted by the military and derided by the media as 'the Butcher of Toro,' Tanis Richards is still one of the sharpest counterinsurgency officers in the Terran Hegemony. When colony leaders recruit her to stop terrorists from destroying the GSS Intrepid during its final construction phase at the Mars Outer Shipyards, it looks like her ticket out of a dying Sol System. But powerful corporate and governmental forces — and… more

  • A Path in the Darkness

    Book 2

    When the Intrepid's AI loses control of the ship's engines and core systems while battling a saboteur, it wakes Colonel Tanis Richards from stasis as a last resort. Alone aboard a failing colony ship, Tanis must uncover what happened and find a way to stop the Intrepid from being consumed by a nearby star — and even if she succeeds, the decades-long journey to New Eden means she'll have to… more

  • Building Victoria

    Book 3

    The Intrepid is drifting slowly between the stars. After near calamity at LHS 1565, the ship is headed for Kapteyn's Star to make repairs. There, the crew will need to spend decades building a temporary industrial base. Across the void, the Noctus prepare to leave Sirius for the same destination. Their plan is to colonize the system and forge new lives for themselves . . . if they aren't destroyed… more

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