A Swarm Cycle Story
Before being assigned to the drudgery of volunteer extraction duty, the intrepid Sergeant Budzinski and his platoon of Confederacy Marines take a break from the stress of combat on Tulak and set out to discover what lies underground on a dead Sa'arm world.
A Swarm Cycle Story
How does a colony get ready to take on immigrants? Take a ride with a country boy and a businesswoman from Mississippi and find out how they managed to create a manufacturing sanctuary after being dropped on a backwater planet. Diverse groups converge and turn a barely habitable planet into a Mecca of culture and technology.
A Swarm Cycle Story
A wealthy and politically connected college librarian manipulates a group of students and encourages them to put together a team that the Confederacy shouldn't ignore.
A Swarm Cycle Story
A couple of Texas oil field geologists take exception to being left behind during an aborted Confederacy pickup. One of them decides to take matters into his own hands.
A Swarm Cycle Story
Sometimes even Marines get caught unawares - Marvin Clark continues his unusual entry into the Confederacy much to the chagrin of Sgt Budzinski. Marvin's colleagues risk other plans to outflank the Confederacy Space Marines and reunite Sasha and Millie with Marvin.
A Swarm Cycle Story
Marvin Clark finds himself present at a pickup. The good news? The Confederacy is willing to promote him ahead of schedule. The bad news? Some carefully laid plans have gone awry.