The Vethrak Requiem - Book 1.5

Humanity is building its first extrasolar fleet. The ships that will carry that mission sit in drydock, weeks from...

The Defiant Stand (The Vethrak Requiem) by Justin Wilson

Series

The Exodus Rush (The Vethrak Requiem Book 1)
The Tau Ceti Gambit (The Vethrak Requiem Book 2)
A Sky Full of Fire (The Vethrak Requiem Book 3)

The Vethrak Requiem

In 2125, humanity learned a terrible truth: we are not alone in the universe, and we are not safe.

The Vethrak arrived without warning, without negotiation, without mercy. They call themselves "Those Who Claim," and to them, the harvesting of intelligent species is as...

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The 9 PM Decision It is 10:47 PM. The director of engineering is on the

It is 10:47 PM. The director of engineering is on the couch in his home office, the laptop balanced on a throw pillow, the lamp on its lowest setting. His wife went to bed an hour ago. The whiskey is two fingers in. The Slack thread he was pulled into at 8:30 has run twenty-three messages, and the last one, from his peer in product, was either a mild request for clarification or a deliberate attempt to throw him under the bus, depending on which read he commits to. He has been re-reading it...

The Adrenaline Verdict The CFO closes her laptop too hard. The all-hands

The CFO closes her laptop too hard. The all-hands ended four minutes ago. The CEO had said, in front of two hundred people, that the finance team missed the forecast by twelve percent and that he was disappointed. Her hands are shaking on the trackpad. Her face is hot. She knows the number is wrong. The forecast missed by four percent, not twelve, and the CEO had not asked her about it before he said it. She is already typing the email. Three paragraphs in, the subject line reads, "I need to...

The Sunk-Cost Decision The boardroom is quiet at 2 PM on a Tuesday. The

The boardroom is quiet at 2 PM on a Tuesday. The slide on the screen says "Project Helios, Q3 Update." Helios is fourteen months in, $4.2 million spent, and three months past the most recent revised launch date. Everyone in the room knows the project should have been killed at month nine. No one will say so today. The CEO opens with the words that lock the room: "We've come too far to walk away now." The vice president nods. The product lead opens her deck. The discussion that follows is...

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