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Portal Wars II: The Ten Thousand Released
The Ten Thousand at Amazon
The Ten Thousand at BN
General Jake Taylor and his army of cyborg soldiers are
veterans of Erastus, a planet so brutal, so hellish, it is called Gehenna by
the men sent to fight and die there. He
and his comrades battled for years in the most appalling conditions human
beings have ever endured, believing the entire time they were protecting Earth
from bloodthirsty alien monsters. But it
was all a lie, the cynical propaganda of the totalitarian regime that rules over
all mankind.
The alien Tegeri, and their bio-mechanical soldiers
Taylor’s men call the Machines, were the victims, targeted by a regime that
needed an enemy to consolidate its absolute rule over mankind. For decades, men like Taylor and his soldiers
were the aggressors, unwittingly fighting an unjust war. But when the Tegeri chose Taylor as their
contact and finally told him the horrible truth, he rallied the veterans of
Erastus for a new battle, one to free Earth from its self-appointed masters.
Taylor’s soldiers begin the long campaign back to Earth,
toward a reckoning with the brutal government they are sworn to destroy. The heart of this force is the Ten Thousand,
surgically-altered Supersoldiers, products of an experimental enhancement
program, and the first of their kind.
But they are not the last, and on the planet Juno they will meet their
counterparts, the Black Corps, a force created by Earth’s government specifically
to destroy them. The Black Corps
outnumbers Taylor’s soldiers 2-1, and they have a vast advantage in supply and
logistical support. But Taylor’s men are
veterans of the furnace of Gehenna, and they don’t die easily.
But there is more at stake than the freedom of humanity,
greater consequences to their fight than even Taylor can imagine. For there is another alien race, one shrouded
in legend and myth, known to the Tegeri only as the Darkness. Long ago the Darkness made war on the
Ancients, the mighty beings that built the interstellar Portals. The Ancients are remembered in Tegeri lore as
wise and powerful…almost as gods. But
they fell ages past, destroyed utterly by the Darkness.
Now that great evil is returning, and this time it will
destroy not only mankind and the Tegeri, but all the fledgling races the
Ancients planted, hundreds of young sentient species, only now grasping for
civilization.
The Ancients long ago foretold that an alliance of men
and Tegeri would stand and defeat the Darkness and save the galaxy from
destruction. But if this prophecy is to
come to pass, Taylor and his men must destroy Earth’s totalitarian government and
bring the dark truth to mankind, that there is another war to fight, one vaster
and more terrible than any in human history or legend.
Also By Jay Allan:
Gehenna Dawn (Portal Worlds I)
Marines (Crimson Worlds I)
The Cost of Victory (Crimson Worlds II)
A Little Rebellion (Crimson Worlds III)
The First Imperium (Crimson Worlds IV)
The Line Must Hold (Crimson Worlds V)
To Hell’s Heart (Crimson Worlds VI)
The Shadow Legions (Crimson Worlds VII)
Even Legends Die (Crimson Worlds VIII)
War Stories (3 Crimson Worlds Prequels)
The Dragon’s Banner (Pendragon Chronicles I)
