Before Commonwealth: A Prequel to the Starscape Chronicles

by Jeremiah D. MacRoberts

A prequel to the Starscape Chronicles franchise. Lieutenant Colonel Thomas Harmon, a mid-level military special operations commander, is selected to represent his nation and lead an international task force. Their Investigate a new extraterrestrial faction, already gaining influence over their world, and conduct an ongoing threat assessment, recommending courses of action as well as implementing said interventions as directed by "The Escalon Council."

348 pages, Kindle Edition

Published November 7, 2024

About the author

Doctor Jeremiah D. MacRoberts is an academically trained philosopher (BA, University of Kentucky, 2005), clergyman (MDiv, Lexington Theological Seminary, 2008), and counselor (DMin, Liberty University, 2022). He enlisted in the US Army following high school as a Private (1998), serving in special operations units before commissioning as a Chaplain, a decade later, and attaining the rank of Captain (2012). Chaplain MacRoberts left the military to work for the Department of Veterans Affairs but has also served as a rural church pastor, guest preacher, chaplain for civilian hospice, and provider of free counseling. An avid reader, occasional gamer, and amateur comparative mythologies scholar, he also uses this wide variety of life experiences to inform the characters of his fiction: Encounters with group dynamics, traumatic stress, recovery, morality, wisdom, destiny, faith, fear, forgiveness, cognitive dissonance, emotional grief, physical pain, and all subjects between have been incorporated into how his characters think, feel, and act in their world. Jeremiah D. MacRoberts is currently working on his 10 part "Swords of Faith" traditional fantasy series as well as the ongoing sci-fi "Starscape Chronicles." He also dabbles in contemporary adventure stories, absurdist dark comedy, westerns and Americana with a paranormal twist, as well as narratives about pastoral encounters and real-world ministry.