Freedom was supposed to exist beyond the edge of civilized space. The Unity Government made sure it didn’t.

The colony world of Dritta was founded by settlers who abandoned the crowded core systems to escape the corruption, exploitation, and crushing authority of the Unity Government. Hidden light-years beyond the trade routes, Dritta offered a fragile chance at independence—a place where ordinary people could live beyond the reach of a bloated interstellar regime.

Then the Unity warship Grissom entered orbit.

Damaged and low on supplies, the massive vessel coerces the struggling colony into repairing it under threat of force. But when the ship finally leaves, it takes more than fuel and parts. Tod Riley and six other colonists are shanghaied aboard and pressed into the brutal service of the Unity Navy, ripped away from their homes and families with almost no hope of return.

Life aboard the Grissom is a nightmare of violence, starvation, forced labor, and constant fear. The captain rules his crew through terror while the colonists are treated as expendable cargo, useful only until they break. One by one, Tod’s fellow captives begin to die under suspicious circumstances, and whispers spread through the lower decks about missing freighters, erased records, and illegal attacks in deep space.

The horrifying truth soon becomes impossible to ignore.

The Grissom is not defending the Unity—it is preying upon the outer colonies through fringe worlds space piracy while hiding behind the authority of a corrupt dystopian space navy. Trapped beneath the crushing machinery of galactic empire tyranny, Tod must decide whether to submit, survive, or fight back against overwhelming power before he becomes the next body lost to the void.

Perfect for fans of Robert A. Heinlein and James S. A. Corey, Unity Captives is a grimdark military sci fi survival epic packed with space opera rebellion, oppressive government sci fi tension, and relentless science fiction survival story action.

If you believe freedom is worth fighting for—even against impossible odds—then board the Grissom and begin the rebellion today.