Thrive Colony Corps Space Adventures

They thought Earth was dead.Captain Sass Collier can't die. A century ago, the Colony Corps carried her away to the stars. Because Earth was doomed.She returns with tech advances from the colonies, hoping to restore the one best planet for humanity, and save isolated pockets of desperate survivors.Instead her motley crew from the boonies finds not one, but three surviving worlds - Earth, Luna, and Mars. And she's with the invading aliens.Her homecoming starts with a bang.The Northern League tyrannizes Earth now. They capture Sass and her ship separately, to hold them hostage against each other.Can Sass save her crew from its most powerful foe ever – the mother world?Join Thrive's family of misfits for hard science fiction with rivets, and fresh page-turning space adventure! Book 1 - new to Thrive? Start here! Series complete.Suggested for those who love the ensemble found family of Firefly and Lindsay Buroker's Star Kingdom, plus the AI possibilities in Dennis E. Taylor's Bobiverse.

Are the boat nations Earth's last hope?Stranded without her starship, Captain Sass Collier takes refuge in Earth's criminal underworld. Her sole sponsor, Northern League agent Melkor, shelters them with family among the vibrant floating cities and cruise ship hulks of drowned Florida.But lively hurricanes at sea postpone pursuit only briefly.Because League ruler Voronin desires Sass's pint-sized but powerful digital sentient, her robotic pet mink. The Russian controls his own weapon AI, a relic of dire wars.And he offers rich bounties to tempt Melkor's gangster relations.Yet Melkor believes in Sass. His dying world can be revived using Colony Corps tech. He connects her with renegade gene splicers striving to restore habitat.Meanwhile her ride off-planet is stymied by sabotage on Mars.Can Sass get the goods and escape Earth to the Corps? Or trapped between AIs and League factions, might one of her own companions betray her?

Rayas offers a singular prize - the Dream.Last-settled of the Diaspora colonies, Rayas was privately funded by California refugees in Mexico. They couldn't bankroll the immense settler ships that bore a quarter million souls apiece. And the terraformers were long gone.Instead they sent teens, trained en route using an AI, the Dream. This virtual reality teaches every science and technology, quickly.Students also relive Earth history first-hand as a video game. In Renaissance Florence, beat the Black Death and study under Michelangelo. Sail the Caribbean smuggling drugs, or master the ninja arts in feudal Japan.The Dreamers turned out a bit…squirrelly.Ben Acosta hopes to train crews using the Dream, in a new Colony Corps Academy. He offers Sass Collier the opportunity to found the school. They visit Rayas to perform their due diligence.Sass's Lunar lover Gabe hosts as salesman in chief.The project gives Ben a fresh chance to evaluate Sass's judgment calls. Because if Luna taught them anything…Rayans lie. What dark secrets lurk within the Dream?

A giant invasion ship abuilding.An envoy from Earth.And a relic from Earth's AI Wars…Buffeted by advice, Ben refuses to fire on Moby Prick, as they dub the new colony ship. He won't surrender his home world Mahina, either. There must be another way!Ben has time. Surely the Prick can't reach Mahina for a decade?Two things are clear. They need more ships, and trained crew to fly them. Sass founds the new Colony Corps Academy, assisted by Ben's space-resistant daughter Frazzie.Can Sass lure her namesake to the stars?As for the invasion, Ben has one slim hope. That between the two remaining colonies, one might welcome new settlers. The envoy Melkor says the newcomers will hail from Asia.Can they persuade the xenophobic world Nozomu to welcome Earth's new settlers, and deflect them from Mahina?

Thrive's next generation is put to the test.Dark-humored Frazzie, and stolid engineer Tiktok, win rank and cadet berths on Sass Collier's exciting mission to investigate the dead colony world of Aden. Eerie ruins nestle among Aden's dark rugged canyons, and a quarter million settlers are gone.What destroyed Aden colony?Meanwhile Frazzie's father, admiral Ben Acosta, migrates Rayas Colony. Cadets can transport the people. But the Rayans also need their precious space station transferred. That engineering feat requires Ben.Do they have the League's blessing? No.Do they care? Also no.Sass and Ben foresee no major hurdles. They've succeeded at similar missions before. Then the Colony Corps abruptly loses them both.When Frazzie and Tiktok face what killed planet Aden, can they survive their coming of age?