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In 2080, humanity's first alliance with an alien world hangs on the competence and the conscience of a handful of soldiers.

Military science fiction built from the inside out. Not the mythology of war, but its reality: the weight of command, the cost of obedience, and the question no amount of training can answer. When your orders and your humanity point in opposite directions, which one wins?

Manipulus · Habitus · Sacrificium

A unit. A disposition. A cost.

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MANIPULUS

Book One of the Bion Series

Loyalty is absolute. Control is fracturing. The mission demands obedience, but vengeance demands a soul.

Captain Kedron Trent leads the Manipulus, a five-man counter-terrorism team of cybernetically enhanced soldiers called Bions, to the alien world of Sarsina. The mission is critical. The stakes are global. And not everything goes according to plan.

Manipulus is the first book in the Bion Series.

Worn the uniform. Treated the wounded. Asked the hard questions.

Russ Weaver spent twenty-one years in the U.S. Army, deploying to Afghanistan with the 3rd Special Forces Group. The culture, the pressure, the loyalty that holds small teams together: that experience became the Bion Series.

Retired U.S. Army Lieutenant Colonel Combat-authenticated military fiction
Deployed with 2nd Bn, 3rd Special Forces Group Afghanistan 2007 · SOF support operations
Army Orthodontist & General Dental Officer The medical science behind the soldiers

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The Bion Series was written for a specific kind of reader. The veteran who knows what it actually feels like to carry a mission. The sci-fi fan who wants the science grounded and the stakes real. And the person who understands, from the inside, that the body is more than a vessel. That what you put on it, and what you do with it, is part of who you are.

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For the battle-tested. For the ink-marked.
For anyone who has ever asked what it costs to be more than human.

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