Illiya - Taylor Neeran Chronicles #1

Other books in the Taylor Neeran Chronicles

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#2 - Incursion

A.D. 3485

Twenty-year-old Taylor Neeran is settling in to her new life on the forest planet called Aeden, but all is not well in paradise. She has sent messages off to the stars to let the crew know she is alive, and hopes that one day her mother and the crew will return. She has also transmitted details about the Illiya and the exotic wonders of the planet to the crew of the Zanzibar and the University, but others have intercepted her messages.

A ship arrives bearing comforts of home, and a terrible secret. When the visitors' true purpose is revealed, Taylor finds herself fighting to defend her new home alongside unexpected allies.

Trapped on an alien planet ten thousand light years from Earth, Taylor will soon bear witness to the fate of Aeden as the planet is engulfed in a war they have no hope of winning...

#3 - Intercession

AD 3486

Things are changing on the idyllic planet known by the primitive inhabitants simply as Aeden.

Well, it had been idyllic. Reapers had come to steal Aeden's exotic biology, leaving the planet scarred and countless creatures stolen or killed. But they had fought back, and the Reapers and the invaders who brought them had finally been destroyed.

Aeden was suffering, but life must be replenished in order to restore the balance, and for the planet to be able to fulfil its purpose.

Still, it itched something fierce.

Taylor Neeran was doing everything she could to help, but exactly how do you heal a planet? When the first of several unexpected visitors arrives, Taylor would find her world changed forever...and the galaxy along with it.

#4 - Icarus

AD 3487

Taylor Neeran, Star-Killer.

That's what she was being called throughout the Xathen dominion. Turn the minor star of the Franath binary system into a black hole, and they gave her that title. She was famous, infamous, whatever. It's not like it was a handful of stars, one star wasn't that many, the galaxy had plenty of them. But sometimes it was the small actions that got the most attention. One star to save a hundred unsuspecting civilisations and a trillion or so lives, in some ways it was more than a fair trade.

It wasn't her fault the minor sun had failed to complete its transformation into a black hole and changed its spin. Instead, it had become a neutron star, a pulsar – tilted on its side, spraying death across the Franath system as it wobbled on its axis.

Franath was now spoken in whispers or not at all, as if the word itself was cursed.

But she was going to fix it.

In order to save eight billion souls, Taylor Neeran, Star-Killer and Spirit-Mother of Aeden was going to tame a star.

Or die trying.

Of course, not actually die, that would help nobody. But she was going to try really, really hard...    

#5 - Infestation

A.D. 3596

While Xathen are of many body-forms, they are all Xathen, one and united.

However, a billion years ago the Xathen fought each other in the bloodiest civil war the galaxy has ever seen. Trillions died and hundreds of star systems were extinguished as battles raged all across the Milky Way.

They fought not over race or body-form, but over a single ideal:

Thou Shalt Not Interfere.

The losers fled the galaxy entirely, cast out into the great dark between the stars.

The winners were left to play as gods with the Orion Spur, fostering one cluster of new intelligences after another, wiping them out, then starting again.

We are the result of their toils.

Now those who had fled have returned. They call themselves the True Xathen.