Zero “Cassette” USB

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Like action-packed first-contact thrillers? You’ll love the The Legend of Zero. Listen on any device with a USB port. NOTE: You can also extract the audio and use the USB for file storage. Includes Book 1, Book 1.5, and two short stories.  

Book 1: Forging Zero Synopsis 

First Contact didn’t go as expected. Now they own us. 

Earth has been conquered by a massive galactic empire, and its war machine needs soldiers. In a cruel twist of fate, 14-year-old Joe Dobbs accidentally ends up on a ship carrying Earth’s children to an alien training planet. To make it out alive, he must survive an apathetic bureaucracy that sees humans as little more than spare rations. Meat with guns. Or, if they’re really unlucky, servants. 

The oldest of the children drafted from humanity’s devastated planet, Joe unwittingly becomes the centerpiece in a millennia-long alien struggle for independence. Once his training begins, one of the elusive and prophetic Trith gives Joe a spine-chilling prophecy that the universe has been anticipating for millions of years: Joe will be the one to finally shatter the vast alien government known as Congress. And, the Trith cannot lie... but first, Joe has to make it through boot camp. 

Book 1.5: Zero Marked Synopsis 

Two turns after the events of Forging Zero, Rat and Joe finally finish their PlanOps training and get orders to their first duty station – a hellhole Bagan planet called Blekk – but first, a little good old-fashioned R&R! Joe and Rat get set loose on the Ueshi pleasure planet of Kaleu with 14 days and five turns’ worth of credits burning a hole in their pockets, and they plan to make full use of it! But this wouldn’t be a Legend of Zero if Zero didn’t do something legendary, now would it? One would certainly think that a 15-day vacation to an Ueshi pleasure planet would be nothing but peace and relaxation… However, when Baga are involved, a lot can go sideways  –especially when one of Joe’s groundmates is a numbers-crunching, gambling-obsessed savant fixated on beating the house! Kidnapping, assassination, a splash of gratuitous violence, nailbats… Can Zero save his teammates from the bowels of a casino and salvage his vacation before time runs out? Will Rat get her revenge, or will her competitive streak go too far? 

“The First God of Fire” Synopsis 

The Ooreiki and seven other cultures have, after a long and bloody battle, finally bested the fearsome Jreet. With only a few Jreet survivors asking to parley, the Ooreiki meet with their allies to discuss a final solution… 

“The Moldy Dead” Synopsis 

“The Moldy Dead” is one of the powerful and poignant “Creation Myth” stories for Sara King’s overwhelmingly popular Legend of ZERO series. It is the history of Congress’ First Contact with the sentient species known as the Geuji, and the unspeakable tragedy that befell their entire species in the early history of Congress.