Decisively winning battle after battle Geary gains the trust and adoration of many of his subordinates, and angers his enemies.Audible Frontiers has so far done a bang up job of producing accessible and quality productions of recent and classic science fiction and fantasy works and their release of Jack Campbell’s Lost Fleet: Dauntless is no exception. Cut off from the hypernet and on the run, Geary still manages to win victories against the Syndicates who are in pursuit.

Geary abolishes this practice and exerts his authority and in the end creates enemies within his own fleet.ĭespite all of this he manages to teach a majority of the fleet how to fight in complicated but powerful formations, how to respect authority and how to use the jump point system of travel. The whole fleet is run as a democracy with captains vying for votes in the decision-making process. With the last one hundred years of war having been one of severe attrition, few of the officers and crew surviving under him have any experience with tactics or chain of command. In the process he loses a ship commanded by his great nephew who stayed behind to buy time for the fleet to jump.Īfter the first jump, Geary has to establish command over people who naturally assume they should be leading the fleet. Geary commands his ships to feint then run for those jump points. Having been frozen while the hypernet technology was invented Geary realizes that while the faster hypernet gates are blocked, the Syndicate ships have left the old jump points unguarded. Mere hours later after the Admiral is executed, he finds himself in command of 200 ships that have been badly beaten and are cut off from retreat. Geary, assuming that the old laws of war still apply and that nothing ill would happen to his leaders, accepts. The battle turns out to be a trap and as the leaders of the fleet board a shuttle to negotiate surrender, the Admiral calls on Geary to lead the fleet if anything should happen to him.

Still feeling weak from being frozen for 100 years, Geary arrives at what is supposed to be a decisive battle for the Alliance against the Syndicate. His last actions in that battle led to his immortalization as a hero of the Alliance people and fleet, which by the time of the book has become blown out of proportion. He was the commanding officer of an early battle in what has become a century-old war between the Syndicate Worlds and the Alliance. John 'Black Jack' Geary has recently been rescued from a 100-year-old escape pod with a damaged beacon.

The lost fleet dauntless