In addition, the Alliance Navy itself has allowed its standards to slip, frequently destroying entire planets and their civilian populations in retaliation for Syndic atrocities, murdering prisoners of war, and has ceased saluting and other traditions reaffirming the command structure.
Throughout the series, Geary is troubled by larger issues.įirstly, he is concerned by the declining state of the Alliance civilian government, which is losing control of its member worlds and the support of the military forces after a century of futile warfare.Īlso, even though Geary is unswervingly loyal to the Alliance, he fears that the government may choose to imprison him as a threat to its own power. When Geary leads the fleet to attack the Lakota star system, the aliens manipulate the Syndic hypernet to divert a Syndic fleet to the system. The alien civilization, whatever their designs for humanity are, do not appear to want the Alliance fleet to reach their home space. The hypothetical aliens also have a means of remote destruction of hypernet gates, which will allow them, given time, to extend the war between the humans indefinitely. These aliens may even have been responsible for humans "discovering" the hypernet and may have sinister reasons for giving humans this technology after Geary discovers that a hypernet gate can be used to destroy an entire star system. Geary believes they are an unknown alien civilization who may have tricked the Syndics into starting the war with the Alliance.
During these raids, the fleet gradually uncovers evidence of a third party in this war. Geary resists the temptation offered by this faction with great effort, though they continue to apply pressure to him throughout the series.Īs the entire military force of the Syndicate Worlds continues to hunt the Alliance fleet, Geary is often forced to raid Syndic star systems for supplies and raw materials. To complicate the situation, a third faction wishes to stage a military coup upon the return of the fleet to Alliance space with Geary as dictator. Geary's attempt to change the fleet's culture causes tension with other senior officers, including one egomaniacal senior captain freed from a Syndic labor camp with a reputation almost as famous as Geary's, who proceeds to split off a portion of the fleet on a disastrous mission. Geary is also forced to retrain the fleet to fight in formation instead of the "modern" free-for-all tactics of charging straight at the enemy, supposedly inspired by Geary's example at his famous last stand, caused by decades of attrition and loss of experience. Left as de facto fleet commander and with great reluctance takes it upon himself to lead the fleet to the safety of Alliance space. The Black Jack Geary legend includes the expectation that one day he will return from the dead to lead the Alliance fleet to victory. Known as "Black Jack" in the present, his legendary exploits are taught to every schoolchild and he is revered for his heroic last stand in the early days of the war. After obtaining a " hypernet key" from a Syndic traitor, they send a large fleet through a hypernet gate to directly attack the Syndic home-world, but are ambushed by overwhelming Syndic forces.ĭuring the approach to the Syndic home-world, the fleet discovers the escape pod of Captain John Geary in an abandoned star system. The Alliance has been fighting the Syndicate Worlds (a union of planets under a tyrannical, corporate-like government) for a century.
Endless sky fleet status series#
This is a prequel trilogy written after the main series was finished. This is the most recent work of the author. The author, however, has continued the Lost Fleet series with three spin-offs: Beyond the Frontier, focusing on the main characters from the Lost Fleet The Lost Stars, focusing on the Syndicate Worlds Outlands, picking up where Leviathan leaves off as well as a prequel series, The Genesis Fleet. Awakened after being discovered during a secret mission that turns out to be an enemy trap, he is suddenly dropped into the role of fleet commander and expected to live up to the legend that has grown around him. In his absence, he has been made into a renowned hero in the Alliance, but his legend and actions are used to justify poor tactics and decisions. The protagonist of the story is discovered floating in a suspended animation escape pod one hundred years after he made an "heroic last stand" against an enemy fleet. The series is set one-hundred-plus years into an interstellar war between two different human cultures, the Alliance and the Syndics. The Lost Fleet is a military science fiction series written by John G.
For other uses, see Lost Star (disambiguation).
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