He wanted to avoid the spreading war. Far, far away was just not far enough.
Introverted scientist Rex Bel-Kenita is on his way home. Snatched from the chaos unfolding on Kementhast Prime's southern continent, he has been asked by the Imperial Navy to fix a mysterious navigation issue affecting their entire armada. In return they will grant him safe passage to his family home on Damastion.
But someone else has a keen interest in the workings of the prototype star cruiser
Ardent
, someone who will stop at nothing to possess not only the ship itself, but everyone aboard. For Rex, what should have been an uneventful voyage home is about to become a nightmare from which there may be no escape.
I Dream of Damastion
is a standalone novella which takes place during the closing events of
The Ravening Deep
, the third main sequence Armada Wars novel, and the opening of
From Shattered Stars
, the fourth novel. Introducing new characters and a new ship, this novella expands the background events of
by exploring two of the mysteries which arise within that volume.
serves as both a taster for those who have not yet ventured into the Armadaverse, and as a supplementary tale for those who have. The novella can be understood without knowledge of the main novels, just as the arc of the main novels is complete without the novella.