Rust Gambit: Progenitors (Junk Fleet Book 3)

By Carl Wang

The war is over. The real one is just beginning.

Cass Vero saved Earth by killing the rust and freeing 10,000 pilots. Now she commands Fleet Zero - a rescue fleet of junk ships and ex-ghosts - with only three memories to her name.

But the people who built the rust are coming.

They call themselves Progenitors. They seeded the galaxy with life as an experiment. The rust was their data recorder. The Masters were their janitors. And humanity? We're the control group that got out of containment.

Now they're here to collect their results. If they judge us "unviable," they'll reset Earth to molten rock and start over. They've done it to 12 other species.

The only person who ever beat them was a woman 10,000 years ago: Seris, the First Unforgiven. She's dead. But her memories - and her sins - are locked in Cass's blood.

To save her species, Cass has to unlock Seris's memories. But if she does, she might stop being Cass forever... and become the monster who started the first war.

Eyes knowing. Hands holding. We're not letting go.

Rust Gambit: Progenitors is the third book in the Junk Fleet series - a military science fiction adventure for fans of The Expanse, Battlestar Galactica, and space opera with a soul.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0H5JX1YH9
• ISBN13: 9798181819160
• Release Date: June 2026
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 0.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.5" x 8.5"