IF YOU CAN'T BE DEAD, MAKE SURE SOMEONE PAYS DEARLY
The empire convenes. The android doesn’t wait.
In the chamber of the High Adamant Domination Council — a room designed to amplify the emperor’s voice and remind everyone else of their place — something unprecedented is happening. A single rogue entity has forced a session. Jon Ryan, android, rebel, and the most improbable military threat in galactic history, has graduated from a minor irritant to a line item on the imperial agenda.
The council debates. The emperor fumes. The Inquisitors compete for credit and argue about jurisdiction. The bureaucracy of evil does what it always does: it generates paperwork and punishes messengers.
Meanwhile, Jon Ryan is not at the table. He’s in the field, hitting targets while the empire is looking at a map. He has allies drawn from species the Adamant broke and discarded. He has technology scavenged from the empire’s own abandoned installations. And he has the one thing the Adamant’s entire military doctrine never prepared for: someone who genuinely doesn’t care how many of them there are.
Firestorm is Book 3 of the Galaxy on Fire series. The Adamant are taking Jon seriously now. That’s not going to help them.
The High Adamant Domination Council has convened an emergency session. They have ruled the galaxy for millennia. They have never faced an enemy they couldn’t crush. They are now facing Jon Ryan, and their internal politics are making it worse. Jon is no longer a rumor. He has a ship, a coalition of species who would rather fight than keep being enslaved, and a plan that’s just coherent enough to be catastrophic for the Adamant. Firestorm is Book 3 of Craig Robertson’s Galaxy on Fire series — the rebellion that started as an ember has become something the empire can’t dismiss.
