Richard Swan: 6 books

The Kaygryn Empire is coming. Amidst the embers of the Ascendancy War, old enmities must be forgotten and new alliances forged if the UN is to rally against the Imperial Fleet of Reclamation. Yet even on the eve of battle, the beleaguered forces of Tier Three are far from prepared. Power-hungry...

The Ascendancy War has raged for six months. After two enormous fleet actions at New Port Louis and the Pillars of Cain, the seemingly unstoppable provari advance into UN space has finally been forced to a grinding halt. In the respite of stalemate, the UN gears up for its biggest counter-offensive...

Hadan’s Reach. To the kaygryn, a major federal nation of a few hundred million. To the UN, an irrelevant backwater garrisoned by a few platoons of bored troopers. As the UN and the Ascendancy thrash out the final terms of the largest and most controversial trade treaty in Tier Three history,...

Tier Three: a compact of six vast interstellar empires, intricately bound by political, diplomatic and trade accords. Together, after centuries of massacres, brushfire wars, trade embargoes and political assassinations, they have finally brought a modicum of peace to a turbulent galaxy. But...

The United Nations and the Provar Ascendancy are at war, and across the galaxy, human politicians, generals and diplomats are being abducted as part of a brutal campaign of psychological warfare. While the vast armies of humanity battle frantically to stem the Ascendancy advance, UN Joint Intelligence...

Ariadne has been abandoned. As the UN reels from multiple Ascendancy attacks and cedes hundreds of lightyears of territory, Solar Operations Command has initiated a policy of "Strategic Sacrifice". Hundreds of colonies across the Outer Ring will be left to their fate as the UN Fleet...