First Conquest

When Sergeant Major Jill "Reaper" Repeth, Admiral Henrich Absen and the crew of EarthFleet's most powerful dreadnought Conquest are sent on a mission forty light years from Earth, none of them expect to return. But to find a home and keep humanity safe from hostilealiens, they must fight to seize a new world, initiating EarthFleet'sfirst conquest of another star system.
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First Conquest is Book 1of the Plague Wars: Stellar Conquest series, which carries the PlagueWars series forward a century into the future when humanity turns to the stars to find its destiny. It tells of a bitter battle as EarthFleetsmashes into an alien star system in a desperate first strike to savehumanity. Follow the starship Conquest as its captain and crewtake the fight to Earth's enemies, finding allies and making heroicsacrifices in order to secure the future of Earth's solar system against a hostile universe.