The Lexington Legacy Collection
Ashes of Chara
Book One | A Tale of Two Admirals
The Republic won the war. Then it had to sell the peace.
After decades of censorship, emergency powers, patriotic spectacle, and enemies too useful to defeat, Operation Mandate was supposed to end the Corporate Wars. The Republic called it finality. The Core called it valor. The Fringe called it atrocity.
More than 40 million are dead. Two worlds have been broken open. Politicians rush to contain the fallout, corporations pivot from weapons to reconstruction, and official voices compete to decide which parts of the truth the public can survive.
But the story will not stay buried.
A Senate-directed investigation quietly gathers in a forgotten bar called the Scuttle, where military lawyers, analysts, and combat veterans build two records at once: the one the Republic can afford to release, and the one that might someday tell the truth.
Beyond official channels, those buried fragments reach a journalist, a hacker, and a mercenary aboard the RNS Zephyr, shaping an exposé that will change the course of the hearings and tribunals to come. As heroes become suspects and the Republic searches for one admiral to carry the blame, another story is already moving beyond its reach: two versions of one man, one the Republic can use, and one it may not survive.
Ashes of Chara begins A Tale of Two Admirals, a military-political science fiction saga about memory, power, forever wars, and the truths governments bury to survive them.
📅 Available October 31, 2026
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