Rika's Marauders
Rika's Marauders is the story of one woman's fight to become human again after being turned into a mechanized warrior. Set during the Orion War in M. D. Cooper's Aeon 14 universe, the series follows Rika -- a scout mech built by the Genevian military and discarded when the war was lost -- as she claws her way from mech-meat and mercenary to commander, finding a found family among the Marauders along the way. Eight books of mech warfare, cyborg soldiers, and hard-won found family, from a woman's lowest point to leading the fight to free her homeworld.
By M. D. Cooper
Books in this series
Rika Mechanized
Book 0
Rika's crime was small: stealing food. But faced with a five-year prison term or conscription into the Genevian military, she chose war. Turned into a scout mech and stripped of her humanity in all but name, she has to survive impossible odds alongside her fireteam, clinging to the one promise that keeps her going -- that when her service ends, she'll get her body, and her life, back.
Rika Outcast
Book 1
Rika is mech-meat -- a cyborg killing machine built by the Genevian military and discarded the moment the war was lost. She's spent the years since working cargo on Dekar Station, trying to forget what she became. When her debt is sold to a band of mercenaries who need her for an assassination job, Rika is pulled back into the only trade she's ever been good at: killing. All she… more
Rika Redeemed
Book 2
After years spent drifting since the war, Rika has finally found something like a home with the Marauders -- an elite spec-ops team that treats her like a person, not a weapon. But when she's offered a dangerous solo mission with a chance to rescue her former commander, she has to choose between the found family that gave her back her humanity and the loyalty that first made her who… more
Rika Triumphant
Book 3
Rika has earned her place, her crew, and a measure of peace -- but peace never lasts. Given command of a mech company within the Marauders, she leads the charge as the Allies take the fight to the Nietzschean Empire at a scale she's never seen before. The time for hiding is over. The time for ass-kicking is nigh.
Rika Commander
Book 4
After a harrowing fight and a desperate escape from the surface of Pyra, Rika realizes she's saved the life of one of the most powerful women in the galaxy: Tanis Richards. With a new fleet and resources she never dreamed of, Rika presses her mission to restore Genevia -- and take the fight directly to the Nietzschean Empire.
Rika Infiltrator
Book 5
Rika's Marauders have crushed the Nietzscheans at Sepe, annihilating the fleet that struck Thebes -- but Rika knows the war is far from over. A surprise operation targeting the planet Kansas, in the Blue Ridge system, runs straight into resistance no one predicted, forcing Rika and her team into a desperate rescue with everything on the line.
Rika Unleashed
Book 6
In Iberia, five mechs are fighting for their lives against an entire star system, and Rika is bringing everything she has to pull them out. Time is the real enemy now -- the distance across the system is more than the stranded mechs can survive, and Rika will have to take drastic action to save her team, and maybe billions of lives besides.
Rika Conqueror
Book 7
When Chase scouts ahead into the Parsons system, he uncovers intel that changes everything about the coming incursion into Nietzschean space. Now Rika has to prepare her Marauders to strike at the very heart of the enemy occupation -- and begin the true fight to free Genevia, once and for all.
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