Review: Successor to the Empire
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 12 19, 2012
The old Empire is dying!  Long live its successor!This is the second book in a series about the rise of a successor state to the moribund Galactic Empire.  The corrupt Galactic Senate and massive Imperial bureaucracy are destroying the Empire, with the dissolution beginning at the Rim.  However, a new state is being born to succeed it from a seed of a small detachment of Marines still possessing a core of honor and a HE3 production plant that never made economic sense for the frontier Avalon system.  This book continues the saga of the birth pangs of a new power, showing the struggles and doubts of people still loyal to the ideals of the dying Empire, yet forced by circumstances to create its successor.