This is a fan translation of Fighters of Danwait (Бойцы Данвейта) by Mikhail Akhmanov, currently only available in Russian and, because of the author's passing in 2019, unlikely to ever be published in English. This is the third book in a six-book series called Arrivals from the Dark (Пришедшие из мрака), which also has a six-book spin-off series called Trevelyan's Mission (Миссия Тревельяна).

I claim no rights to the contents herein.


Timeline

2054: the creation of the United Space Forces (USF) by the leading nations of the planet.

May 14, 2088: the official date of the start of the Invasion; a Bino Faata starship encountered the cruiser Lark near Jupiter's orbit and destroyed her.

June 3, 2088: the Battle of the Martian Orbit, during which a portion of the USF Third Fleet was destroyed (a flotilla under the command of Admiral Timokhin).

June 7, 2088: the landing of the Faata starship in the Antarctic and its destruction.

September 22, 2088: the birth of Paul Richard Corcoran; birthplace – USF Lunar Base.

2095: the first interstellar expedition, which reached the planets of Alpha Centauri via a Limbo jump.

2096: first contact with the Lo'ona Aeo; a Serv-controlled ship landed on Pluto.

2097: the construction of the Lo'ona Aeo base (recruitment center) on Pluto and the embassy structures on Luna. The beginning of the recruitment of human mercenaries, which were then shipped to the planets of the Pink and Blue Zones.

2099: the Lo'ona Aeo ended their contract with the Dromi, their former Defenders. The human mercenaries first encounter the Dromi in combat.

2095-2122: the exploration of the volume of space within thirty parsecs of the Solar System, the settling of a number of colonies at nearby stars. The beginning of humanity's interstellar expansion.

2125: Operation Counterstrike. A flotilla of human cruisers under the command of Commodore Vrba reached the Bino Faata colony worlds at the edge of the Void (Ro'on, T'har, Aezat) and pushed the Faata out.

2134-2152: the First Void War, during which Commodore, and then Admiral Paul Corcoran commanded the Frontier Fleet, protecting Earth's distant colonies.

2100-2150: Earth received information about several galactic races and their Zones of Influence (Haptors, Shada, Kni'lina, etc.). In some cases, this data was obtained from the Servs of the Lo'ona Aeo, in other cases, they were a result of accidental contacts between human and alien ships on remote expeditions.

2164-2182: the Second Void War.

2167: the death of Corcoran in battle, while defending Ro'on and T'har's star system. Admiral Venturi took over the command of the Frontier Fleet.

2182-2185: the construction and activation of the Embassy Domes near the USF Lunar Base.

2201-2240: the Third Void War, the longest and bloodiest of all. Sometimes called the Forty Years' War.

2253-2261: the Fourth Void War. Ended with the total defeat of the Bino Faata.

2262: the Lo'ona Aeo started recruiting human veterans, who had resigned after the Fourth War. The fighting with the Dromi grew more active and aggressive.

2266: a large-scale operation took place at the edge of the Lo'ona Aeo sector, resulting in human mercenaries taking back one of the space citadels that had been captured by the Dromi.