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Out of Time - Foundations of the Fleet
Paperback
Publisher Price: $14.99
Publisher: Kbandoly Books
Published: Mar 17 2026
Pages: 180
Weight: 0.55
Height: 0.38 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Build the Academy. Write the Charter. Survive the planet.Colonel Nathaniel Callahan is handed a patch of hardpan on Aurion's high plateau and told to do the impossible: build the Fleet Academy from nothing. No city. No infrastructure. Just wind, gravity, and a deadline that does not care about morale.
The real threat is not the weather. It is the politics. Aurion's provisional government wants oversight. Starhold demands representation. The Synthians arrive with advanced technology and their own expectations about humanity's future. Everyone agrees the Fleet is necessary. No one agrees on what it should become.
When a violent storm collapses a communications tower with people trapped inside, Callahan's first class receives a brutal lesson in the Fleet's true purpose: rescue before glory, discipline before pride, and responsibility before power.
Inside this bridge novella: - the founding of the Fleet Academy on Aurion
- the creation of the Fleet Charter that defines humanity's future
- cooperation and tension between humans and Synthians
- the first generation of cadets learning what it means to protect rather than rule
Foundations of the Fleet
is Book 2.5 of the
Out of Time
series and bridges the events of
Broken Gates
and the next era of humanity's expansion into the galaxy.
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