Lessons of the Eternal War

The Clone Wars have reached their last act. Whoever holds the Outer Rim when the guns finally stop will dictate the shape of the galaxy, and both the Republic and the Confederacy are gathering everything they have left for one decisive blow. In his office above the capital, Chancellor Sheev Palpatine — Sith Lord, and the author of the entire war — stands one step from the end of his own script, the greatest scheme in the history of the galaxy. Then the Force screams, and he feels something arrive that he did not foresee. A third fleet — vast, on no star chart, answering no hail. It belongs to the Imperium of Man, and its crews have fought for ten thousand years without a single day of peace. It did not choose to come: traitors of its own kind raised the storm that threw it here, and it lived through that storm only because an alien witch gave warning, a debt its Chapter Master would rather not have survived to owe. The light his navigators steer by cannot be seen from this galaxy at all. There is no way back. Standing under stars he does not recognise, he does not call them a prison. He calls them unconquered. Unclaimed for the God-Emperor of Mankind. Jedi generals and clone officers meet the Adeptus Astartes. Separatist admirals learn what a lance battery does to a droid control ship. And two exhausted war machines, each certain it is fighting the greatest war of the age, are handed the first lesson of the Eternal War: theirs was the small one. — Description from novelcodex.orgFull novel: Lessons of the Eternal War — read the rest free on N​o⁠v​e⁠l​C⁠o​d⁠e​x⁠.​o⁠r​g⁠