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SOLDIER
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LEGION
PROPHET
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SEEKER
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SERIES
THE AWARD-WINNING
SCIENCE FICTION SERIES BY
Marshall S. Thomas
ABOUT
Veterans, Army, Navy, Marines, Coast Guard, Space Force, Police, Firefighters, First responders, ICE, Border Patrol, Doctors, Nurses, and all patriotic Americans — Welcome to the Confederation of Free Worlds and to the official website of the award-winning science fiction series by Marshall S. Thomas. We have recently updated this website. We hope you enjoy it.
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Enlist in the ConFree Legion for a wild ride into the far future. Stand by your squadies in the Outvac at the gateway to the stars and learn to trust no mortal man, but only the mark of the Legion. Support and defend the people of the Confederation of Free Worlds against all enemies, foreign and domestic. Embrace what the Legion offers - immortality and death.
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New readers continue to discover the Soldier of the Legion series, and those who have concluded that series are moving on to the Prophet of ConFree and Seeker series. Please see the short series descriptions below and then click on the book covers for more information on each series. Happy reading!
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New Book! Seeker and the Crow, see Seeker series.
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Please see new quotations below and new images in the gallery.
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SERIES
Choose your adventure
Soldier of the Legion is a six-book action-adventure science fiction series that follows Legion trooper Thinker's adventures in the service of the people of ConFree. The ConFree Legion offers both immortality and death, and Legion soldiers know the mission is not over until they are killed in action. Titles in the series include Soldier of the Legion, March of the Legion, Slave of the Legion, Secret of the Legion, Cross of the Legion, and Curse of the Legion. Please click on the book above to learn more about the Soldier series.
Fifty years after the events outlined in Curse of the Legion, a new generation of recruits has walked through the Legion Gate. Formidable new challenges face the ConFree Legion, but the mission does not change: defend the women and children of the Confederation of Free Worlds from everything that would threaten them. Titles in the series include Prophet of ConFree, Prophet and the Blood March, Prophet and the Eye, Prophet and the Creature from Eternity, Prophet and the Fields of Glory, and Prophet and Deadman's Dogs. Please click on the book above to learn more about the Prophet series.
The latest series begins in a dark future, when ConFree has been over-run by enemies both foreign and domestic. Foreign aliens are consolidating their power over the native peoples, and resistance is unthinkable. National suicide is official government policy. Despite a generation of thought control and endless hateprop, embittered ConFree youth are still volunteering for a weakened ConFree Legion. Four hundred years of service to the people of ConFree will not disappear quietly into the night. Is it indeed too late, or will the new Legion recruits risk it all to do the right thing for the women and children of ConFree?
QUOTES
'She cares nothing for politics, and knows nothing of history. She makes dinner for her children, and kisses them good night. And she is why we fight.'
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— Why we Fight, Duties of a Legion Trooper, Legion Handbook, 310 CGS
"We are starstuff, riding the milky sea of the cosmos into the icy mouth of eternity. Immortal for an instant, we rush into the infinite dark, lost and alone, and wink out forever, leaving not a trace of our passing.'
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— Last entry, recovered from the ashes of the personal journal of an unidentified Legion trooper killed in action in the Plague War
'He’s been wounded so many times he’s probably more artificial than human. He’s seriously crazy – some of the troopies whisper that he’s not quite human, anymore. But I don’t care about that. He’s our One, he’s the bravest man I’ve ever known, and we’ll follow him anywhere. We’ll go straight into Hell if he wants, and shoot Satan right between the eyes.'
'Our One' – excerpt from the personal journal of Thinker (Beta Three)
"The DefCorps trooper is tenacious and skilled. He does not fight for the System, but for himself and his comrades. In most cases he will not stop until you kill him. Respect your enemy!"
— Veltros Training Command -- Weapons Introduction, 312 CGS
THEY COME IN ALL SIZES
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— Sign mounted on the wall over a display of a Legion A-Suit,
Veltros Training Command, 312 CGS
"Growing up in a free state is not for sissies."
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— Honeyhair, to Melinda
This is what the Legion does. We don't just follow orders. We disregard the orders, and liberate the hopeless, and light up the world.
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— Prophet, recognizing his calling.
I have burnt the Book of Laws, to serve the Deadman's Cause, as a Soldier of the Legion.
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— Oath of enlistment
"We don’t have medals. Your recognition comes when your name shows up on the Legion Monument to the Dead."
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— Unknown squad leader
Our mission against the O's is clear — victory or death. Failure means extinction for our species.
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— Veltros Training Command
“They say we fight for ConFree, for justice, for the future. What crap! Give me that E! I fight for my people.”
— Unidentified Legion trooper, overheard just before the drop onto Andrion 3.
"For it's Tommy this, an' Tommy that, an' 'Tommy, wait outside,'
But it's 'Special train for Atkins' when the trooper's on the tide –
The troopship's on the tide, my boys, the troopship's on the tide,
O it's 'Special train for Atkins' when the trooper's on the tide.
"While it's Tommy this, an Tommy that, an' 'Tommy, fall be'ind,'
But it's 'Please to walk in front, sir,' when there's trouble in the wind –
There's trouble in the wind, my boys, there's trouble in the wind.
O it's 'Please to walk in front, sir,' when there's trouble in the wind."
– Tommy by Rudyard Kipling
"Love love love, waiting for news from you
Tears tears tears, waiting for news from you
My lovely soldier boy
Come home to me
Come home to me
I think of you all day
I dream of you all night
Wet pillows, for you
Cold tea, for you
I am lost
I am lost
Love love love, waiting for news from you
Tears tears tears, waiting for news from you
Come home to me
Come home to me
My lovely soldier boy."
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— Soldier Boy
​— Milsurp
The past is dead and gone
The scent of flowers in a tomb,
A half-remembered tune
From a half-remembered time.
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— Legion Drop Song
"Deadman, Deadman
Hold me tight
Deadman, Deadman
Might is right
Deadman, Deadman
Won't you say
Deadman, Deadman
Who dies today?"
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— Chorus of the Legion drinking song "One Squad, One Road"​
Immortals in blood
Brothers in Arms
Soldiers of the Legion
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Flying black standards
Beta Two Four
Delegates to the stars
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All seasoned recruits
For Heaven's wars
Now recon death's cold road.
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— Legion Death Song
"ConFree may be at peace, but the ConFree Legion is still at war."
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— Honeyhair, to Prophet
"The war is starting and attendance is mandatory for all."
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— The Prof, to the exploitation staff
The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
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— Thomas Jefferson
I'm not retired. That's nonsense. The Legion Cross is cut right into my heart.
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— Prophet, to Honeyhair
Galactic Info knew damned well that prudence and moderation bred only contempt, and violent extremism bred fear and respect, and that was what ConFree and the Legion needed and wanted.
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— Seeker accepts his role in history
"Archangel Michael, you try to keep up, hear?"
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— Isis calls on the gods.
ENLIST
​​The author loves hearing from his fans. Please send any inquiries or comments about the books to the email below. Submit your art for a chance to have it displayed and credited in the gallery.
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Contact the author Marshall Thomas at marshallthomas@soldierofthelegion.com