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Galaxy's Edge

Jason Anspach, Nick Cole, Jonathan Yanez, Josh Hayes, J. R. Handley, Karen Traviss, Michelle C. Meyers & Richard Fox · 7 series · 35 novels · 3 short stories · 2017–2026

Somewhere past the last lit shipping lane, where the Republic's writ thins to nothing and the comm relays go dark, the Legion still answers the call. Galaxy's Edge is military science fiction told from inside the armor — a boots-on-the-ground space opera where the soldiers who bleed for the galaxy are "leejes," legionnaires in battered bucket helmets, and the men who spend them are politicians a thousand jumps from the mud. Two creeds run the whole show: the House of Reason's endless committees, and the Legion's one line back — KTF. Kill them first. Jason Anspach and Nick Cole opened the frontier in 2017 with Legionnaire and have not slowed since, running the core saga across three numbered "seasons" and drawing other hands — Josh Hayes, Jonathan Yanez, J. R. Handley — into the shared world as it widened. Around that spine orbit the spin-offs this catalog holds: Tyrus Rechs: Contracts & Terminations, trailing a near-immortal gunfighter older than the Republic itself; Savage Wars, the prequel cycle reaching back to humanity's first terrible war among the stars; Order of the Centurion, standalone tales each built around a single act of valor; and the outlaw run of Nomad. The books wear their inheritance openly — this is the grunt's-eye war story the great galactic myths never bothered to tell: cynical about empire, reverent about the brotherhood that holds the line, fast and profane and close to the ground. The politics are rotten all the way up; the loyalty down in the squad is the only clean thing left. Newcomers start with Legionnaire and read forward in release order — the seasons build, and the prequels hit harder once you know what the Legion costs.

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Reading order

35 novels

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Publication/release order: start with Legionnaire and read the core saga forward, then the prequels, with the Tyrus Rechs mini-arc kept together, and the standalone Order of the Centurion titles.

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Galaxy's Edge at the centre, 7 branches around it.

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38 works · 2017–2026

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35 novels · 3 short stories

8 authors

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Grim and intense: 54% of this universe's placed works, the catalog's 46%.

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