The novel “Aftershocks” by Marko Kloos was published for the first time in 2019. It is the first book in The Palladium Wars series.

Aden Robertson was a prisoner of war for five years on the planet Rhodia after participating in an interplanetary war as part of the planet Gretia’s elite military corps. When his sentence ends according to the terms of the peace treaty, Aden finds himself with many uncertainties about his future, also because he intends to stay away from his family.

Color Sergeant Idina Chaudhary leads a team on patrol duty on Gretia as part of the occupation force. For years, there have been no incidents when her team is attacked by someone who is very well equipped. Lieutenant Commander Dunstan Park is on patrol duty at Gretia’s fleet, which was seized and waiting for the Allies to decide how to split it, when an unknown spaceship is detected in the area. Solveig Ragnar is the daughter of a powerful Gretian industrialist who was underage when the treaty was signed that ousted Falk Ragnar from his industry and as a result, she can go to work as an executive in her father’s company.