Court Martial at Outpost Nine
A Space Fleet Legal DramaBy Josephine Lockhart
Length8h 12m
About this audiobook
Two thousand three hundred civilians are alive because Commander Vera Okonkwo gave an order no officer wants to give: abandon Outpost Nine. The station is gone. The battle was unwinnable. And the Fleet has charged her with cowardice and desertion in the face of the enemy. Now she sits at the defense table in a courtroom orbiting the same emptiness she chose to leave behind, while the man who signed the evacuation order's death warrant watches from the tribunal bench. Admiral Marcus Hale wants a verdict, not a conversation. Captain Idris Bello wants a name to hang the Fleet's worst defeat on, and Vera's is the one on the docket. Her defense counsel is a lieutenant who has never argued a capital case. Her best witness is a sensor officer who saw the enemy fleet arrive and has not slept since. Every hour of testimony strips away another layer of the official record, and what remains beneath it is an order that should never have existed, issued by someone who never expected it to surface. Vera can still save her career, her rank, her name. All it costs is the truth about why she ran.
Audiobook details
GenreFantasy
Length8 hrs 12 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateOct 22, 2026
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1The Charge Is Read
15The Widow's Question
2Two Minutes of Silence
16Two Thousand Three Hundred
3Blood on the Bulkhead
17Rusk Breaks
4The Admiral's Lesson
18Contempt
5Civilian Cargo
19The Fleet's Conscience
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6Article Ninety-Two
20Closing Argument
7The Missing Minute
21Bello's Last Card
8Chain of Custody
22The Dock Tape
9Rusk Takes the Stand
23Verdict Room
10A Coward's Ledger
24Not Guilty
11The Decoy Signal
25The Cost of Winning
12Standing Order Seven
26New Orders
13Hale's Dilemma
27Outpost Nine Remembered
14Crossfire
28About the Author
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