Xihirli
2020-04-11, 11:32 PM
I read only the final book of a series and want to catch up with the whole thing, but do not have the copy of the book I did read. Does anyone know what I am describing?
The book I read opens up with a man who captained a really important ship (a dreadnought) for a fleet but quit when a very evil guy took over the navy (or so I gather). He is approached by the Emperor, who used to take the same drug as the evil admiral and has lost enough of his power that he cannot stop the war he started with a similarly evil empire or rein in his Admiral, who he hires the captain to effectively assassinate. In the course of that war, a rebellion sparked on the Emperor's home island (which I think was called Cholsis though searching for that turns up nothing) against him and he angered a group of people leading tribal lives who ride war moose. He is on a quest to get the rebels to help him assassinate the admiral and form the navy of one ship (because the other evil empire this formerly-evil emperor whose military is not under his control has historically never had a navy despite its capital bordering water). Basically he's an emperor who has fallen out of power due to his lack of being evil who needs to build an army out of all the people he's gotten to hate him over his career of evil-ness and he's also still suffering withdrawal from the evil drug that turned his eyes blue.
Anyone read it? Remember it?
The book I read opens up with a man who captained a really important ship (a dreadnought) for a fleet but quit when a very evil guy took over the navy (or so I gather). He is approached by the Emperor, who used to take the same drug as the evil admiral and has lost enough of his power that he cannot stop the war he started with a similarly evil empire or rein in his Admiral, who he hires the captain to effectively assassinate. In the course of that war, a rebellion sparked on the Emperor's home island (which I think was called Cholsis though searching for that turns up nothing) against him and he angered a group of people leading tribal lives who ride war moose. He is on a quest to get the rebels to help him assassinate the admiral and form the navy of one ship (because the other evil empire this formerly-evil emperor whose military is not under his control has historically never had a navy despite its capital bordering water). Basically he's an emperor who has fallen out of power due to his lack of being evil who needs to build an army out of all the people he's gotten to hate him over his career of evil-ness and he's also still suffering withdrawal from the evil drug that turned his eyes blue.
Anyone read it? Remember it?