Starsector

The Frontier, uninhabitable and extremely hostile. With the loss of the Kampf gates 40 years ago leading to the Frontier, Avril Breton and her small band of mercs have to get buy with the limited amount of resources on an inhospitable planet. While on the other side of the Frontier, Rise Preson has finished his Mechanics degree and has been accepted to the only prestigious school in the Frontier. How will their paths meet, and with the re-emergence of the Greater Hegemony war is brewing... Note: This is my first "real" novel and so expect the quality to be sub-optimal in the first batch of chapters. Outwards Frontier is partially inspired by the game "StarSector."

There was once a lazy, good-for-nothing son that lived on a little, wet rock amongst the stars. His name was Aetna Erandeusi, the firstborn son of the noble Erandeusi Household. As the firstborn of a noble house of the interstellar kingdom known as the Solastora Empire, Aetna's birthright inheritance meant that he was to be the successor of the Erandeusi House. It was a privilege that many of Aetna's siblings would have murdered him for, granting him the governorship of the starsector of Kolinto, but there was one tiny problem... "Hey, Dad, can you... disown me? ...Please? No? Please don't make me inherit the title, daddy!!" The son did not want any part in the family business... Not that he had a choice in the matter. Doomed to become the eventual Count of Kolinto, Aetna's slow life of mooching off of his father has come to an end. As all nobles are duty-bound to protect their Domains, their interstellar fiefdoms, he was shipped off to a military academy to become an officer worthy of inheriting... a title he doesn't want. These are the legendary records of a poor, damned soul without a single hope of escape—the memoirs of the infamous Count of Kolinto.