Machineries of empire

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4.3 stars

"To win an impossible war Captain Kel Cheris must awaken an ancient weapon and a despised traitor general"--Amazon.com.

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3.7 stars

"Shuos Jedao is awake... and nothing is as he remembers. He's a teenager, a cadet--a nobody--in the body of an old man; a general in command of an elite force. And he's the most feared, and reviled, man in the galaxy. Jedao carries orders from Hexarch Nirai Kujen to re-conquer the fractured pieces of the hexarchate. But he has no memory of ever being a soldier, let alone a general, and the Kel soldiers under his command hate him for a massacre he...