Shaun Rigby – författare

Earth was never humanity's birthplace.It was our hiding place.When Australian SAS soldiers Rosco Martin and Fergie Moore uncover an impossible device beneath the Outback, they trigger a signal buried for sixty-five million years.Across the world, archaeologist Dr Elizabeth Jones discovers the same symbols on an artifact recovered beneath Antarctic ice. The markings point beyond Earth—and towards a war erased from human memory.The signal has already been answered.Xenari scouts are here. Their armada is coming. Governments are closing ranks, ancient machines are waking, and humanity has no idea why it was hunted in the first place.To survive, soldiers, scientists and leaders must uncover the truth about the first humans before the enemy finishes what it started.The Last Hope is a fast-moving military science-fiction thriller combining Australian grit, alien contact and an ancient mystery buried inside humanity's past.

The First StrikeA prequel short story from The Origin SeriesHumanity's first blow against the Xenari should have been a moment of triumph. For Captain Sandra Ramirez, it feels more like the beginning of a nightmare.Strapped into her Nova interceptor, Ramirez leads her squadron on a daring ambush against a Xenari supply convoy — a strike designed to cripple the enemy's war machine before it gains momentum. But as the battle unfolds in fire and wreckage, Ramirez finds herself torn between duty, survival, and conscience.The enemy's transports fall. Her pilots cheer. The Emperor calls it justice.Yet Ramirez cannot shake the haunting question: was this victory forged on truth, or on a lie that will damn them all?The First Strike is a pulse-pounding story of sacrifice, suspicion, and the spark that ignited the interstellar war at the heart of The Last Hope.