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In the bleak northlands, Grimnir, the living god of the plundering Vanir, is leading his hordes across Cimmeria. Tales of Grimnir's fury spread as refugees scatter throughout the land to escape his wrath.

In the village of Gaud, the young warrior Kern, the "Wolf-Eye," has been exiled, an outcast from clan and kin. It is he who is fated to confront the dreaded Grimnir. But as loyal friends and desperate fighters rally to his side, even Kern does not know whether he leads his people to deliverance, or certain death.

Kern "Wolf-Eye" and his Men of the Wolves continue their war against the Vanir raiders. But innocents are paying the price for the Wolves' actions as the Vanir pillage and burn one village after another.

Only by uniting the Cimmerian clans under one banner--and one army--will Kern be able to rid the land of the Vanir once and for all.

The army of Kern "Wolf-Eye" has been scattered, and as the dead are buried, the tribes gather to choose new leaders.

To prove his worth, Kern must seek out the House of Crom, where rests a weapon of legend that can kill any man, beast, or god. For in his heart he knows that not all glory lies on the battlefield, and that there is no sacrifice too great to sing one last song of victory.

Marcus GioAvanti and his mercenaries, Avanti's Angels, are called to the Periphery, a remote region of space where a religious cult known as Word of Blake is hatching a deadly scheme.

A rising young star in the noblest of warrior houses of the Capellan Confederation, Aris Sung must tangle with time and treachery to thwart the Sarna Supremacy's armored warriors before they destroy the galaxy.

The ambitious First Lord of the resurrected Star League launches a campaign to rebuild the ancient Capellan Confederation. With his sights set on expanding his borders through the reclamation of the St. Ives Compact, he is brought into direct conflict with his own family. Supported by the ferocious Hustang Warriors, the threat poses a danger to all who would oppose the First Lord's rule. With military units divided in their loyalties, the question remains: Who is willing to pay the higher price in blood?.

With the hope of reuniting the renegade St. Ives Compact with his own Capellan Federation, Chancellor Sun-Tzu Liao has gone to war for control of the Compact. But as months of battle turn to years of war, the growing list of the dead has begun to darken his brightest dream. And as doubts fill the Chancellor's mind, those same dark thoughts haunt the minds of the Compact and Capellan soldiers fighting on the front lines. With his dream slipping through his fingers, Sun-Tzu makes a last desperate gamble that will either win the day... or doom him forever.

LET THE GAMES BEGIN...

Solaris VII is known as the Game World -- where entertainment is king, money is power, and MechWarriors from every corner of the Inner Sphere come to make war against one another in the ultimate sporting event. Michael Searcy arrived on Solaris VII as a dishonored MechWarrior, and worked his way up in the rankings to become a valued commodity in the games. He knows all the moves, plays all the angles, and can put on a show as well as he fights.

But now, the ancient grudges pitting warriors against each other have spilled out of the arena -- and are moving through the streets in an all-out war. And Michael is caught in a championship match where the winner is the last man left alive....

THE PRICE OF VICTORY

David McCarthy returns to Kathil a hero -- one of the few surviving members of the First Kathil Uhlans, who fought so fiercely in the war to defeat the Clans. But David returns from Clan space with haunting memories of the cost of victory....

With the Federated Commonwealth on the brink of civil war, David joins the planetary militia on Kathil -- and steps into a powder keg. Opposing forces wrangle for control of the planet and its orbital shipyards, which berth a portion of FedCom's mighty WarShip fleet. The Eighth Regimental Combat Team -- loyal to Archon Katrina -- refuses to turn over control of the planet to the militia.

Caught in the power struggle between supporters of Katrina and those of her brother, Victor, McCarthy vows that he won't fail the people of his homeworld, even if that means leading his untested MechWarriors against the Eighth's superior firepower -- and dredging up a past he'd rather forget....

Bitter rivals for power Victor Steiner-Davion and his sister Katrina maneuver their forces on the brink of civil war-even as their young brother Arthur begins his own rise...

But Katrina is about to unleash a ruthless campaign that could rid her of the young upstart Arthur-and will strike at the very heart of her hated brother, Victor...

As the civil war within the Federated Commonwealth rages on, someone plans a strike that could put it all to an end.

The civil war between Prince Victor-Steiner-Davion and his sister Katrina is heating up to the boiling point.

Having recovered from the catastrophic events of Wildfire, the Starfleet Corps of Engineers team on the U.S.S. da Vinci meets its new second officer: Mor glasch Tev, an arrogant Tellarite who's the best there is -- and he knows it.

Even as Captain Gold and Commander Gomez get used to their acerbic new officer, the S.C.E. team faces crises in its own solar system. A strange vessel appears in the middle of San Francisco that the S.C.E. must deal with -- aided by engineers extraordinaire Montgomery Scott and Miles O'Brien. Then they have to help the Venus terraforming team -- a mission that brings Bynar computer expert Soloman to a difficult crossroads.

That's only the beginning of the challenges for the Corps as it faces a Ferengi with a time machine, a prison colony in a black hole -- and a mission from the Dominion War that comes back to haunt the da Vinci crew in more ways than one....

Contents:

• vii - Introduction (Aftermath) - essay by Keith R. A. DeCandido
• 1 - Aftermath - [Star Trek: Starfleet Corps of Engineers - 29] - (2003) - novella by Christopher L. Bennett
• 105 - Ishtar Rising - [Star Trek: Starfleet Corps of Engineers - 30] - (2003) - novella by Michael A. Martin and Andy Mangels
• 237 - Buying Time - [Star Trek: Starfleet Corps of Engineers - 32] - (2003) - novella by Robert Greenberger
• 319 - Collective Hindsight - [Star Trek: Starfleet Corps of Engineers - 33] - (2003) - novella by Aaron Rosenberg
• 433 - The Demon - [Star Trek: Starfleet Corps of Engineers - 35] - (2004) - novel by Loren L. Coleman and Randall N. Bills
• 619 - About the Authors (Aftermath) - essay by uncredited

NO EXIT

The world's two superpowers are at war -- when suddenly even nuclear annihilation becomes unimportant. For, without warning, the Earth is ripped from orbit, torn from the entire universe, by an insatiable, planet-destroying cosmic vortex. Now both sides -- along with everyone else on the globe -- are trapped in the grotesque parody of reality called the Maelstrom.

Exploring the concepts and expanding the background of this incredible adventure, this novel takes readers and gamers to the beginning: when armies of the near future face the horrors of the battlefield and gut-wrenching alien terrors they cannot escape as they are drawn...