With Skippy on their side (shmaybe) and a hijacked alien starship under their (or rather, Skippy's) control, humanity finally has some chips in the game, but the moment anyone discovers that the primitive monkeys of Earth have been working with an Elder AI to warp space-time and subvert the hierarchy of control in the galaxy that has been in place for eons, it's game over for humanity. The only problem? It turns out that Skippy is an arrogant, absent-minded asshole. With Skippy on their side, humanity finally has a chance to break free of the Kristang's control and get out of the galaxy-wide war. Skippy boasts numerous reality-warping powers well beyond the understanding of even the most senior species in the galaxy, and he wants Joe's help to escape from Paradise so that he can reconnect with his own kind. that is, until Joe Bishop meets an advanced alien precursor AI dubbed Skippy. Soon the Expeditionary Force finds that it is caught in a war between two alien powers with barely any hope for survival, let alone escaping the conflict. Unfortunately, humanity is also completely reliant on the Kristang for star travel and supplies. The humans of the Expeditionary Force on the planet Paradise soon realize that their "saviors" the Kristang are war-like, brutal, and completely unforgiving of insubordination. However, it soon becomes clear that the Kristang are not the benevolent saviors they portrayed themselves as.
As the Ruhar were the first to show up to Earth and the first to start bombing it back to the Stone Age, humanity eagerly agrees to help the Kristang in any way possible. After two of the lower level species come to Earth to fight over its potential as a staging ground, one of the species - the lizard-like Kristang - recruits hundreds of thousands of humans to help them forcibly evacuate the other species - the hamster-esque Ruhar - from a completely different world they are fighting over. The story follows Joe Bishop, a groundpounder who gets caught up in humanity's first interstellar war effort.
Humanity has just joined the war, and it is at the bottom of the ladder. The two apex species of the galaxy have been busy recruiting lesser species for the effort, and the lesser species in turn have recruited their own client species. The series centers around a Forever War that has been raging across the galaxy since time immemorial. Expeditionary Force is a series of Military Science Fiction / Space Opera novels written by Craig Alanson and narrated by R.C.
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