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Exodus: Empires at War #10
Search & Destroy
The Ca'cadasan are no longer knocking at the door of the Empire, which doesn't mean they have forgotten the humans who have handed them the first defeat in the history of their Empire.
The Cacas are learning from their mistakes, and are retooling their war machine in the face of their greatest opponent ever.
The Ca'cadasan Emperor is not satisfied with the state of his military, and changes will be made. New technologies are in the forefront of his plans, and a major covert strike is planned against the humans. He plans for this to be the death stroke to the human Empire, the pre;iminary to his massive invasion, even as Sean works to defeat the coming invasion and launch a counter stroke to take the initiative.
The Klavarta have the full attention of the Cacas on their front, and the Nation of New Earth is the target of a major offensive. This Great Admiral is smarter htan most, and he has planned a trap to destroy the Klavarta fleet, rendering Sean's new allies impotent to continue the war.
And the Fenri, all but defeated, unleash a weapon of terror on the New Terran Empire. Teams of raiders have entered Imperial space, mandated by their Emperor to destroy everything they come across. Liners, merchant ships, small warships, and even inhabited planets are targets, and the fleet must go on a search and destroy mission to seek out the raiders and stop them before millions fall to their weapons.
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Published March 25, 2016
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Doug Dandridge
75 books142 followersDoug Dandridge was born in Venice Florida in 1957, the son of a Florida native and a Mother of French Canadian descent. An avid reader from an early age, Doug has read most of the classic novels and shorts of Science Fiction and Fantasy, as well as multiple hundreds of historical works. Doug has military experience including Marine Corps JROTC, Active Duty Army, and the Florida National Guard. He attended Florida State University, studying Biology, Geology, Physics, and Chemistry, and receiving a BS in Psychology. Doug then studied Clinical Psychology at the University of Alabama, with specific interests in Neuropsychology and Child Psychology, completing a Masters and all course work required for a PhD. He has worked in Psychiatric Hospitals, Mental Health Centers, a Prison, a Juvenile Residential Facility, and for the his last seven years in the work force for the Florida Department of Children and Families. Since March of 2013 he has worked as a full time writer. Doug has been writing on and off for fifteen years. He concentrates on intelligent science fiction and fantasy in which there is always hope, no matter how hard the situation. No area of the fantastic is outside his scope, as he has completed works in near and far future Science Fiction, Urban and High Fantasy, Horror, and Alternate History.
Doug has published 34 books on Amazon, with over 230,000 sales with 5,000 reviews averaging 4.6 stars. He will be publishing his first traditionally published book in 2018, followed by the second book of the contracted series. Also in the planning stages are post apocalyptic and alternate history series.
Doug has published 34 books on Amazon, with over 230,000 sales with 5,000 reviews averaging 4.6 stars. He will be publishing his first traditionally published book in 2018, followed by the second book of the contracted series. Also in the planning stages are post apocalyptic and alternate history series.
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May 14, 2019I gave up on this series and probably this author when I was maybe 60 percent through this book.
For endless amounts of time I've loathed the main character of the Emperor. His wife is almost worse except that she doesn't have as much screen time. While that was mostly my only objection to this series I was able to go forward, but too many other things are annoying me now.
For endless amounts of time I've loathed the main character of the Emperor. His wife is almost worse except that she doesn't have as much screen time. While that was mostly my only objection to this series I was able to go forward, but too many other things are annoying me now.
June 19, 2017
I just got back to this series after finding out that I had bought and downloaded book 12 before reading either book 9 or 10! That won’t work so I’m working my way back to book 12. This has been a pretty good series. This is a story of the New Terran Empire built from the Exodus of Earth humans after they were attacked by the Ca’cadasans, eight-foot tall, horned aliens of immense strength. The Ca’cadasan Empire is huge; much, much bigger than the New Terran Empire although the New Terran Empire pretty much reigns supreme over it’s part of the galaxy. The do have other aliens in close proximity, but they have forged strong alliances with these Kingdoms or have won wars making them subjects of the New Terran Empire. Still, citizens of the New Terran Empire are free to do as they please under the order of law. Even the Emperor, Sean the First, is subject to the laws of the Empire, although he can make changes as he pleases with the approval of the Parliament.
Sean is a very young Emperor. He wasn’t expecting to be the Emperor anytime soon since he was several steps down in line with brothers ahead of him. Then all his family were killed in an attack on the “Donut” and suddenly a junior Navy Officer finds himself now Emperor and Command in Chief of the entire New Terran Empire military. But that’s been a while back. Sean is now married to a doctor who just happens to be very pregnant with their first child and heir to the throne. Sean is surprisingly very good at being Emperor. He’s leaned quickly how to manage the various and many people under his rule and has become a formidable political opponent to the political parties in Parliament. Since the Empire is at war, Sean also has certain powers that only become averrable when this condition exist. He’s been using them judiciously and wisely. Still, the Ca’cadasan Empire is vast and they seem to have an unlimited amount of resources.
Yet, just recently, the New Terran Empire has crossed the entire Ca’cadasan Empire and found another human civilization fighting the Ca’cadasans. They have done quite well even though they are no where as technologically advanced as the New Terran humans nor the Ca’cadasans. Their civilization grew from another Exodus ship, but these few early humans turned to cloning and while cloning new bodies for themselves, they cloned a specialized group of humans known as the Klavarta who fight their battles for them. Unfortunately, these original humans have become psychopaths and have destroyed every single alien species in their region while also treating the Klavarta as slaves. Sean and his New Terran Empire realize that this can’t be the way to continue, so they help the Klavarta overthrow and replace the ruling original humans. Now the Klavarta are their own masters and must prosecute the war against the Ca’cadasans on their own behalf while the New Terran Empire attempts to help gain allies in this region. So, while Sean has opened a second front and must assist the Klavarta, he knows that doing so will cause the Ca’cadasans to split their forces and could weaken both.
Now, for the not so good. This book is very boring. By the time I got 60% through the book, I had decided that I wasn’t going to finish it. It was just soooooo boring. Nothing was really happening yet we were flitting around from one ship to another finding out what the Captain felt or what their worries were and we even got some insight in the the Ca’cadasan’s own Emperor’s thoughts. And even he was bored! Yes, there is a lull in the major fighting as both side take a breather and regroup. But, it’s really hard to stay interested when nothing of significance is going on. It did get a little interesting when the New Terrans finally caught up to a Fenri roving battle ship and destroyed that mission. I did finish the book, but only because I stuck through the first 60%, so give it time and you can find something worth reading later in the book.
Ok, so now I have to find book 11 and start reading it. While book 10 did leave with a cliff-hanger, I’m not all that excited about reading this story further. It seems like this war will never end. I don’t really know how long the series is planned, but I’m almost thinking that it’s time to shut this one down and write something else.
Sean is a very young Emperor. He wasn’t expecting to be the Emperor anytime soon since he was several steps down in line with brothers ahead of him. Then all his family were killed in an attack on the “Donut” and suddenly a junior Navy Officer finds himself now Emperor and Command in Chief of the entire New Terran Empire military. But that’s been a while back. Sean is now married to a doctor who just happens to be very pregnant with their first child and heir to the throne. Sean is surprisingly very good at being Emperor. He’s leaned quickly how to manage the various and many people under his rule and has become a formidable political opponent to the political parties in Parliament. Since the Empire is at war, Sean also has certain powers that only become averrable when this condition exist. He’s been using them judiciously and wisely. Still, the Ca’cadasan Empire is vast and they seem to have an unlimited amount of resources.
Yet, just recently, the New Terran Empire has crossed the entire Ca’cadasan Empire and found another human civilization fighting the Ca’cadasans. They have done quite well even though they are no where as technologically advanced as the New Terran humans nor the Ca’cadasans. Their civilization grew from another Exodus ship, but these few early humans turned to cloning and while cloning new bodies for themselves, they cloned a specialized group of humans known as the Klavarta who fight their battles for them. Unfortunately, these original humans have become psychopaths and have destroyed every single alien species in their region while also treating the Klavarta as slaves. Sean and his New Terran Empire realize that this can’t be the way to continue, so they help the Klavarta overthrow and replace the ruling original humans. Now the Klavarta are their own masters and must prosecute the war against the Ca’cadasans on their own behalf while the New Terran Empire attempts to help gain allies in this region. So, while Sean has opened a second front and must assist the Klavarta, he knows that doing so will cause the Ca’cadasans to split their forces and could weaken both.
Now, for the not so good. This book is very boring. By the time I got 60% through the book, I had decided that I wasn’t going to finish it. It was just soooooo boring. Nothing was really happening yet we were flitting around from one ship to another finding out what the Captain felt or what their worries were and we even got some insight in the the Ca’cadasan’s own Emperor’s thoughts. And even he was bored! Yes, there is a lull in the major fighting as both side take a breather and regroup. But, it’s really hard to stay interested when nothing of significance is going on. It did get a little interesting when the New Terrans finally caught up to a Fenri roving battle ship and destroyed that mission. I did finish the book, but only because I stuck through the first 60%, so give it time and you can find something worth reading later in the book.
Ok, so now I have to find book 11 and start reading it. While book 10 did leave with a cliff-hanger, I’m not all that excited about reading this story further. It seems like this war will never end. I don’t really know how long the series is planned, but I’m almost thinking that it’s time to shut this one down and write something else.
November 22, 2019
Sadder and sadder
Book 9 was a weird waste of words, with the New Terran Empire contacting the new culture, overthrowing its government and restructuring its society and military in what seems to be four weeks. How is the human empire not invading the evil alien empire already, since the humans are just that handy dandy.
Starting a war with the small slaver race, having no exit strategy, no strategic definition of victory, no operational goals beyond invade a system or two and no leverage to end the war was nuts. This book is all about the consequences of the above. It's based on a "Sinking of the Bismarck" model and is unintentionally hilarious. The battle fleets number in the hundreds of thousands units but six heavy units per colonized system can't be found? A couple of forts per system can't be found? Non interstellar capable ships are why? As system defence, they are why? Forts are useless, yet still get built because why? The chase of the alien ship is crazy and very non-dramatic. Why aren't human squadrons starting to burn Fenri worlds? If the little maniacs want a campaign of destruction, what choice other than to end them? Do it, free as many slave groups as possible, help them to reorganize themselves and to eliminate the last pockets of slave masters before moving on to the big battles. If not that, then why the preemptive strike? What point was there to it? "Do not start a war, that you do not know how to end." That's true for both governments and writers.
The evil aliens are setting up another dastardly scheme that the humans couldn't possibly anticipate? The aliens have wormholes? Whaaaat! Human prisoners may have given the secrets of wormhole production to aliens to avoid being eaten? Whaaaaat! The humans have openly published for decades the research on how to do all that without a black hole? And aliens still stumbled across it! Whaaaat?
The title of the next volume is a giveaway that once again the humans don't know that they are vulnerable to attack. The funny thing about this silly turn is not that this is modeling the Pearl Harbor assault but that it is supposed to be modeling the Pearl Harbor assault.
The USN has broken the highest level IJN codes prior to the Pearl Harbor attack. The U.S. has embargoed Japan for years and identified the IJN as the primary naval threat by the USN since 1905. The entire Japanese battle fleet sails from Tokyo Harbor, hmmmmm? The entire (as in complete, all of them, the whole group) U.S. carrier fleet with every (as in all) modern cruisers and other escorts, decided to go on exercises. Every U.S. submarine also decided to go on exercises. The only major warships left behind were the obsolete Washington treaty battleships, whose replacements were already designed? Suspicious? All early warning including radar and sonar contacts (including the penetration of Pearl Harbor itself by Japanese midget submarines), were ordered to be disregarded? By the time Yamamoto analyses the post PH attack, he admits that Japan has lost the war. Surprise. Yes. To the U.S., not so much.
This is the scenario that you're recreating for this space yarn? It's applicable how? The terran empire has been at war, has been attacked in the home system, lost the imperial family on this super, duper secure facility that had no security and has no measures in place to prevent surprise intrusions into home system space. There is no concern that the evil aliens might have their own wormholes. No concern that they were shown all manner of nifty use for same by terran navy ambushes and surprise attacks. I am fairly sure that I can't read much more of this series past Book 11. I do have to try to witness what seems will be a regular train wreck of story logic, historical modelling and insane prose.
Book 9 was a weird waste of words, with the New Terran Empire contacting the new culture, overthrowing its government and restructuring its society and military in what seems to be four weeks. How is the human empire not invading the evil alien empire already, since the humans are just that handy dandy.
Starting a war with the small slaver race, having no exit strategy, no strategic definition of victory, no operational goals beyond invade a system or two and no leverage to end the war was nuts. This book is all about the consequences of the above. It's based on a "Sinking of the Bismarck" model and is unintentionally hilarious. The battle fleets number in the hundreds of thousands units but six heavy units per colonized system can't be found? A couple of forts per system can't be found? Non interstellar capable ships are why? As system defence, they are why? Forts are useless, yet still get built because why? The chase of the alien ship is crazy and very non-dramatic. Why aren't human squadrons starting to burn Fenri worlds? If the little maniacs want a campaign of destruction, what choice other than to end them? Do it, free as many slave groups as possible, help them to reorganize themselves and to eliminate the last pockets of slave masters before moving on to the big battles. If not that, then why the preemptive strike? What point was there to it? "Do not start a war, that you do not know how to end." That's true for both governments and writers.
The evil aliens are setting up another dastardly scheme that the humans couldn't possibly anticipate? The aliens have wormholes? Whaaaat! Human prisoners may have given the secrets of wormhole production to aliens to avoid being eaten? Whaaaaat! The humans have openly published for decades the research on how to do all that without a black hole? And aliens still stumbled across it! Whaaaat?
The title of the next volume is a giveaway that once again the humans don't know that they are vulnerable to attack. The funny thing about this silly turn is not that this is modeling the Pearl Harbor assault but that it is supposed to be modeling the Pearl Harbor assault.
The USN has broken the highest level IJN codes prior to the Pearl Harbor attack. The U.S. has embargoed Japan for years and identified the IJN as the primary naval threat by the USN since 1905. The entire Japanese battle fleet sails from Tokyo Harbor, hmmmmm? The entire (as in complete, all of them, the whole group) U.S. carrier fleet with every (as in all) modern cruisers and other escorts, decided to go on exercises. Every U.S. submarine also decided to go on exercises. The only major warships left behind were the obsolete Washington treaty battleships, whose replacements were already designed? Suspicious? All early warning including radar and sonar contacts (including the penetration of Pearl Harbor itself by Japanese midget submarines), were ordered to be disregarded? By the time Yamamoto analyses the post PH attack, he admits that Japan has lost the war. Surprise. Yes. To the U.S., not so much.
This is the scenario that you're recreating for this space yarn? It's applicable how? The terran empire has been at war, has been attacked in the home system, lost the imperial family on this super, duper secure facility that had no security and has no measures in place to prevent surprise intrusions into home system space. There is no concern that the evil aliens might have their own wormholes. No concern that they were shown all manner of nifty use for same by terran navy ambushes and surprise attacks. I am fairly sure that I can't read much more of this series past Book 11. I do have to try to witness what seems will be a regular train wreck of story logic, historical modelling and insane prose.
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January 1, 2017very good bock! Nuff said.
April 11, 2016
This book was outstanding; as all this series has been. I did not know what to expect when I started this series but I have become hooked on it.
This book adds more sidelines and fills out the whole universe quite well. I was surprised by some of the developments; but I think they will mesh well as the story line progresses.
The ending left me wishing the next book was already here. It sets up the coming events well even though you know not everything will be fine for everyone.
I like the way the main thread and the spin off series work in concert without having to jump back and forth to figure out what is happening.
This book adds more sidelines and fills out the whole universe quite well. I was surprised by some of the developments; but I think they will mesh well as the story line progresses.
The ending left me wishing the next book was already here. It sets up the coming events well even though you know not everything will be fine for everyone.
I like the way the main thread and the spin off series work in concert without having to jump back and forth to figure out what is happening.
April 20, 2016
Good book.
Fast paced, lots of action. This is book ten with no hint that series will conclude soon. As a senior hope I can last to the end.
Fast paced, lots of action. This is book ten with no hint that series will conclude soon. As a senior hope I can last to the end.
September 1, 2016
While still a good book, I didn't like that the important fight on the second front was only told in parts, the outcome not understandable.
September 6, 2016
Great series
Great character development. Series continues to show first class effort and results. There has been no let down in the quality of the writing. Thanks to the author.
Great character development. Series continues to show first class effort and results. There has been no let down in the quality of the writing. Thanks to the author.
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